The political party 50PLUS is currently unable to access its financial administration. The former head of the Financial Commission, Johan Hessing, took the paperwork home after being voted out last month, and it is still missing from the party's offices in The Hague.In the meantime, an advertising agency has hired a collection agency to help recover an overdue payment for the campaign for the Tweede Kamer elections of last autumn. The Tweede Kamer is the lower house of the Dutch Parliament.
As long as it has the support of the VVD, Geert Wilders’ first Cabinet can count on a majority in the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate. The four parties currently discussing forming the new Dutch government - PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB - are only eight seats short of a Senate majority, and the other right-wing parties are willing to provide that, AD reports.
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.