“She has a quiet style, is civilized, substantive, serious, young, LIKEBLEMABLE. She is going to bring about an image change. ” That said former-FVD party leader Thierry Baudet on Sunday afternoon about his successor Lidewij de Vos, after the presentation of the new election program A new chance for the Netherlands.
With the fox, the party hopes to attract new voters on the right. Baudet: “I am unable to reach that group. But with Lidewij we go for 12 seats. We are going to take a huge step in seat attention and in media attention.” Forum for Democracy now has three seats in the Lower House and is at 2 to 4 seats in the polls, according to polling guide. De Vos will be installed next Tuesday as a Member of Parliament and then becomes the same party chairman. Her party colleague Pepijn van Houwelingen then disappears from the room.
Baudet occasionally looks jealous at GroenLinks. That is, he says, “the most successful party, although they have never ruled. But they have influence everywhere; at academics, journalists, activists, in companies. We have to become a kind of GroenLinks on the right.”
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On Saturday, Baudet, founder of FVD, unexpectedly transferred the party leader to De Vos, who is now active as a party employee for the party. De Vos was polled by Baudet before the summer, who in a press release “no longer effective” called himself “face of the party.” He stated that he stands in the way of the growth of the party “by polarized opinions about me and a five -year blockade in the media. That has been partly my own fault – too much a freethinker, too much a flapuit – but also partly created by framing and being awarded nothing”.
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In his speech, Baudet quoted from the song Blood, sweat and tears From folk singer André Hazes: ‘I did well. But also done so wrong. When I look back in time. ”
Baudet remains party chairman and is second on the list of candidates. He wants to focus more on the development of ‘his social movement’, for example the training and training. “Let me build in the shade; that gives me energy.”
Baudet says he deliberately chose the fox as a fresh face and not one of the sitting or former MPs Gideon van Meijeren, Pepijn van Houwelingen, Ralf Dekker or Freek Jansen. “They have received the same blemish as I have also made slippers or said things that you say ‘not handy’.”
De Vos wants to ‘address young people’
Lidewij de Vos is an unknown name for the outside world, but she is appreciated within the party. In the previous parliamentary elections in 2023, she was in sixth place on the list of candidates. The party leader is for The fox A special birthday present: she was 28 years old last Saturday. At the beginning of this year she was the replacement of Baudet for three months when he went on paternity leave. Together with Baudet she also wrote a book About the nitrogen policy: Nobody in the cockpit (2023).
De Vos said in her speech that FVD “has grown into a movement for people who share the sincere deep -rooted love for the Netherlands in the last ten years.” She mentioned the well-known FVD topics on which she focuses on: binding referenda, no new AZCs, remigration, safer streets and stop ‘those horrible wind turbines and solar parks’. She also said she had never had the ambition to go into politics, but it did “because the Netherlands that I cherished violence”.
Afterwards the fox said she also hopes to appeal to a younger generation. Many problems, such as the housing shortage, end up with her generation, she said.
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