NSC MP Harm Holman will not return to The Hague after elections this fall. The 67-year-old politician from Roden is no longer eligible. “From the outset I said that I would go for one period. I had promised my wife,” he says.
Holman has been in the Lower House since December 2023 on behalf of New Social Contract (NSC). “I am at a certain age and feel more well-paid volunteer than an ambitious politician. I am politically active for the 29th year. It is enough,” explains Holman in the Radio Drenthe program Cassata. Holman was previously on behalf of the CDA in the Drenthe Provincial States and in the municipal council of Noordenveld.
The Roner politician had presented his period in The Hague something else. Certainly now that he cannot finish his term and the job will soon be on for two years because of the fall of the cabinet. “It was a unique period,” he says with a sense of understatement.
Holman says he will continue to work on an initiative law on agriculture in the coming months, which must be submitted after the summer. “We still have something to do. What bothers me is that we have not actually got a meter ahead in the field of agriculture and nitrogen. We have been so batten for thirty years about what we have to do with agriculture.”
Holman is angry with the fact that PVV leader Geert Wilders pulled the plug from the cabinet because the three other coalition parties did not want to implement his stricter asylum measures. “I expected it to happen once, but not so quickly and not in this way,” he says. “I’m angry that someone doesn’t take his administrative responsibility.”
Holman hopes that Wilders’ action will return as a kind of boomerang. “I hope it will be a kind of final settlement of populism. That would be the right side of this story,” he sighs. “It is so unnecessary and such a shame. I don’t think it is possible that people do not want to take their responsibility for the national administration.”
NSC will have to work in the run -up to the parliamentary elections on October 29. The party stands in the polls only a few seats, while she still has twenty. “We have to pick up and see what is happening. I am convinced that this will soon be in a different political composition than now. I also hope that they can work more constructively than we have done with these four parties in the past period.”