Prospective party leaders were able to apply until Friday. As it sounds now, the committee with party prominents Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Andrée van Es, Ineke van Gent and Nelleke Vedelaar will only have to bow over one candidate. And that is not very surprisingly French Timmermans.
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Moorman confirms to De Telegraaf that she has not applied for party leadership. But she is interested in getting started as a member of the Lower House, now that the elections due to a cabinet fall just before her farewell fall as an alderman.
“That also penetrates itself a bit,” says Moorman. “Politics always depends on time and place. I have already announced that I will stop, that also raises the question ‘what afterwards?’. This is something I seriously think about.”
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Sources in Amsterdam and The Hague meanwhile report that there is a very nice place on the list in the offing. Moorman would even be in the picture as the number 3 of the merging parties. Striking, because the candidate for MPs has just started and can still register until the end of this month.
Tug -out
“That is really not true,” says Moorman himself about that high place. “I have no agreements about it at all. For me only what I can contribute and where I can contribute as well as possible.”
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The tug of war about who comes to which place nevertheless seems to be going on. For example, Jesse Klaver would aspire to second place, where he made way two years ago for party colleague Esmah Lahlah. Within the party, Lahlah does not really come out of the paint as a parliamentarian. A disappointing one calls the off the record. Both ‘substantive and in quality’ she falls short, thinks it. “Klaver does that better.”
Lecturer’s ambitions
Two years ago Moorman did not want to go into the room. As a party leader, she made her party the largest for the first time in eight years in the 2022 municipal elections. Now it’s a different story. Next year she will stop as an alderman and her successor Sofyan Mbarki is already ready as an Amsterdam party leader.
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Last week, the Amsterdam alderman was right behind party leader Timmermans at the results of the online referendum on the merger between PvdA and GL. It is no secret that Moorman would have liked to have been the first leader of the combined list in 2023.
Nice starting position
An Amsterdam party colleague Nijtjes notes that Moorman will soon have a nice starting position as Timmermans as Timmermans at one point. For example, due to a disappointing election result.
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With education and poverty reduction in her portfolio, Moorman profiled himself as an alderman as a warrior for equality. She likes to tell in the media on that subject.
Halsema stays in Amsterdam
Timmermans also has nothing to fear from the other frequently tipped director from Amsterdam. Mayor Femke Halsema recently announced that he heard at Amsterdam and stay there. A very big call should come out of the party to change her mind.