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.
Former employees of FvD described the atmosphere at the far-right party as toxic, intimidating, and unsafe. According to them, party leader Thierry Baudet regularly confronted them with racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia. “That literally destroyed me as a human being,” one former employee told AD.