![]() ![]() “This government hasn’t done anything in the past few years. She lives with her husband in the neighbourhood of Duindorp and voted for the PVV. Jolanda Looyer-van der Zwan is a 51-year-old housewife. It will consist of quite a few parties and they all have different wishes about with whom they want to work with.” I think it will take at least until the summer before we have a new government. Many politicians, like Prime Minister Mark Rutte, have promised things they couldn’t live up to, such as: ‘We won’t give any more money to the Greeks’. It is clear people have lost trust in the established parties. During the 2012 campaign, it was about the crisis: How are we going to save money to survive? Now it’s much more optimistic: How are we going to share the wealth? However, it hasn’t been a very exciting campaign. Probably some people who normally don’t vote for the VVD will now vote strategically for them, to prevent the PVV from winning. Even now, I am still deciding between three parties. Most of them, including myself, let their choice depend on the campaign – especially on television debates. Nowadays, voters aren’t very loyal to a party any more. There are so many political parties in the Netherlands because we have a low election threshold the chance of winning a seat parliament is rather big.Īs a result, many people are confused. Only the Groen Links (Green Left) party is somewhat distinctive because of their ideas on sustainability. Most of the largest parties want a better healthcare system, are focused on what the Dutch identity is, and want to limit the number of refugees. “For most people who don’t follow politics in detail, the differences between the political parties are at the moment very small. His research focuses on political parties, election campaigns, referendums and the political role of the media. Philip van Praag is a 68-year-old associate professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam. I’m planning to sign up as the town council member, and I’d love to become a member of parliament one day.” However, they give everyone the freedom to profess their religion or not. Some people say D66 is an anti-religious party because they are pro-euthanasia, abortion and regulated weed plantations. ![]() DENK stands up for us, people say therefore, many people don’t understand why I don’t vote for them. ![]() ![]() Here it’s a bit of a craze to vote for DENK now. I think Dutch people who live in neighbourhoods without immigrants miss that ability. You learn to deal with people from Morocco, Ghana, Suriname and so on. In my neighbourhood, we live among many people from different cultures. They aren’t following those populist themes about the Dutch identity and integration, like so many other parties these days. I like their nuanced views and that they stress the importance of education, jobs and healthcare. I was contacted by people from D66 and we hit it off immediately. This party is only making the dichotomy bigger, just like the PVV does. Furthermore, not all Dutch people discriminate us – I, for example, have never felt discriminated against – and it doesn’t happen on such a large scale as DENK says it does. This is not going to solve discrimination. But soon I realised they discuss just one issue. I thought, why not, if this party is against discrimination and racism. “Last year, a friend of mine asked if I wanted to volunteer for DENK. She lives with her parents, who immigrated from Turkey, along with her brother in Transvaal, a neighbourhood where 90 percent of the residents are immigrants. Rabia Yildiz, 21, is a law student and volunteer for D66, the progressive liberal party. ![]()
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