Wierd Duk, who we can now also call an SBS 6 star due to his regular appearances in News of the Day and Today Inside, has made a major blunder. “I am the loser of the day.”
René van der Gijp made an exception for Boris Becker by joining Today Inside on his free Wednesday, but he didn’t feel like doing that yesterday. He missed VI’s election broadcast. We saw Wierd Duk, with whom he would rather not sit at the table, take a seat in the studio.
Small print
D66’s significant win caused Wierd to vote no, but he himself did not vote. “I also wanted to vote, but it failed. I thought: I will go to Hilversum early, because then I will at least avoid the traffic jams and then I will vote there, but that is not possible in this country!”, he says in Today Inside.
In principle you can only vote in your own municipality. “Of course I never read the small print. That’s something for Job here.”
Not voted
Johan Derksen makes a joke about that. “We also notice that in your comments, yes, that you never read the small print!”
Wilfred Genee surprised: “So you didn’t vote?”
Wierd: “No, I wanted to vote for Mona, but anyway, I found someone else who didn’t know who to vote for, to vote on my behalf.”
‘A shame!’
Wilfred immediately knows that it is about a woman. “She has given up her own voice, so to speak?” he says.
It is not clear whether it concerns his ex-wife Fidan Ekiz, but, Wierd says: “Well, she didn’t know who she wanted to vote for, so she said: ‘Then I will vote for the person you wanted to vote for.’”
Loser of the day
Wierd is disappointed about it. “It is of course a shame. I am the loser of the day, I immediately admit it, but I also think it is a bit outdated that you cannot vote everywhere in this country and you really have to vote in your own municipality and you cannot vote digitally either.”
Ultimately, the TV work was more important, he decides. “I was already halfway through and I was on my way to News of the Day, so it was all impossible. Then I wouldn’t have made it.”