“It’s a shame,” says Ronald van Tiggelen, leader of the PVV Zandvoort, about the absence of his party in the council elections. “We did not manage to find enough good candidates. From The Hague they insisted on at least ten candidates, but that was far too optimistic. We originally came to the council on a whim.”
There were zero responses to an advertisement in the Zandvoortse Courant. According to the group leader, many people do not dare to register for fear of problems with their family or their employer. “It can cost you your job, especially if you work for the government. The PVV is portrayed as extreme right-wing, while we are not at all.”
Velsen and Purmerend
The PVV has also been successful in Velsen – and especially in IJmuiden – in recent years. In October the party received the most votes in IJmuiden, just like two years earlier. Nationally, the party lost many voters. It also proved difficult to find enough suitable candidates in Velsen.
The PVV is also no longer on the ballot paper in Purmerend in the upcoming elections. The party now supplies two of the total of 37 council members there.