Volt’s party board does not require its own members to conduct a new investigation into the behavior of Member of Parliament Nilüfer Gündogan. This is apparent from the vote on a motion that was submitted to members at the party congress in Den Bosch last Sunday. They had until Tuesday evening to comment on this. Of the nearly 1,000 members who did so, the vast majority, 78 percent, opposed new research.
The party leaders themselves were strongly against it, because it would be too burdensome for the thirteen reporters who had already told their story about Gundogan’s behavior to research agency BING. But Gundogan, who was suspended from the faction on February 13 and expelled from Volt on March 18, has no confidence in BING and has so far not cooperated with this investigation. As a result, it is still not completed.
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Motion submitted anyway
Before the extra party congress, it seemed that the motion had already been tabled. There was too little support for the submission. There was an outcry about this at the conference. Members asked for a vote on whether the motion could still be put to the vote. That vote turned out differently than the board had hoped: the motion was nevertheless submitted to the members.
From stories that five of the reporters in NRC revealed that some Volt members felt intimidated by Gündogan. She would also have kissed people in the neck and touched the buttocks. Gündogan had previously announced that she had reported libel and slander against the party leadership and the reporters. According to those involved, she will return to work as a Member of Parliament after the May recess, she is now ‘Member Gündogan’.