On Sunday evening, party leaders Pieter Omtzigt (New Social Contract), Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD), and Frans Timmermans (GroenLinks-PvdA) will face each other in the RTL election debate in Amsterdam. They previously shared the stage during the College Tour debate, which was also attended by BBB leader Caroline van der Plas.
A candidate parliamentarian from the BoerBurgerBeweging has withdrawn after it came out that during the coronavirus pandemic, he called numerous politicians “child abuser,” “pharma whore,” and “from niece to Nazi bitch” on X, then Twitter. Jasper Rekers is number 13 on the BBB candidate list, but he won’t take his seat if elected. He ran an anonymous Twitter account for years, continuously insulting public figures, comparing them to Nazis, and regularly calling for tribunals and uprisings.
The D66 and SP want to set the interest on student loans at 0 percent for the “unlucky generation” of students who fell under the loan system. To pay for the measure, which will cost about 500 million euros, the parties suggest increasing the VAT on flowers and plants, AD reports.