The general meeting of 50PLUS at the Reehorst conference center in Ede on Saturday morning quickly degenerated into a dispute that required police intervention. One of the consequences was that the party was unable to elect a party leader for the November 22 parliament elections.
Several parliamentarians who reported their additional income to the Tax Authority after the deadline are having their salary cut, BNR reports. It concerns at least Thierry Baudet (FvD), Gidi Markuszower (PVV), and Roelf Bisschop (SGP). Baudet must repay around 40,000 euros of his salary.
PvdA parliamentarian Henk Nijboer won’t return to parliament after the election in November, he said in a letter posted on X, formerly Twitter. He is concerned about his party’s intention to run with GroenLinks. Henk Krol, former leader of 50Plus, wants to return to parliament. He will be running with Wybren van Haga’s new party BVNL in the parliamentary elections, he announced on the talk show De Oranjezomer.
The website Pensioenvoldoen.nl is running at full speed. Today, the 50,000th claimant has joined the Pensioenvoldoen.nl foundation, which holds the state responsible for the non-indexation of pensions in the period 2008 to 2021.