“I can no longer explain what is happening nationally. It became indefensible for me. The technocratic way in which party leader Wopke Hoekstra takes a position on nitrogen and the future of farmers disgusts me. I miss every human feeling in that,” said Coenen. His discontent has been going on for much longer. He resigned as alderman on 1 October last year. This had to do with the (too) heavy burden that his aldermanship placed on his private life. But also with the national CDA line.
Vaalser former alderman John Coenen leaves the CDA
