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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 19:35:27 GMT -7
The Dutch Labour Party, PvdA (Partij van de Arbeid)Chose Social, vote for the Labour Party!
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 19:38:55 GMT -7
DENK (Dutch for "think" and Turkish for "equal" or "balanced") is a political party in the Netherlands, founded on a minority rights platform. It is legally registered as "Politieke Beweging Denk" (Political Movement Denk).
The party was founded by Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk, two Turkish Dutch members of the House of Representatives, after leaving the Labour Party on 13 November 2014. Upon winning three seats at the 2017 election, DENK became the first migrant-founded party to gain seats in the Dutch national parliament.
Although the party has been colloquially described as a "Muslim political party", DENK "does not promote Muslim candidates as do most similar political parties in Europe". Indeed, during DENK's second State elections in 2021, Stephan van Baarle, an agnostic, also became a DENK member of the House of Representatives. The party BIJ1 was created by Sylvana Simons when she left DENK in 2016, and the two parties overlap substantially on minority rights issues but are divergent on cultural liberal aspects.Stem Denk = Vote Denk!
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 19:57:13 GMT -7
BIJ1 (Dutch pronunciation: [bɛi̯ˈeːn]; lit. 'together'), formerly known as Article 1 (Dutch: Artikel 1), is a political party in the Netherlands. It was founded in Amsterdam in 2016 by Sylvana Simons, a television personality who was formerly connected to another party, Denk. BIJ1 aligns itself as an anti-capitalist, progressive left-wing party, advocating economic justice and opposing racism and discrimination in the Netherlands. Bij1 in The Netherlands is considered to be a leftwing to far left political party. The ideology of the party consists of Anti-racism, Anti-capitalism, Intersectionality, Socialism, Marxism, Dutch republicanism, Feminism, Antizionism and Afro-Dutch interests. BIJ1 is close to the American Black Lives Matter Movement, the March On organisation (the 2017 Women's March of january 21–22, 2017 in Washington, D.C.), Angela Davis, Malcom X, Linda Sarsour, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) cause. Next to Black rights activism in BIJ1, LGBT activism and Feminist activism are strong pillars and elements in the BIJ1 party. Transgender, Gay, Lesbian and Bi-sexual acitivsts are member and politicians within BIJ1. On the left BIJ1 is the most radical party, more radical than the Party for Animals Esther Ouwehand, Ruud van der Velden and Niko Koffeman, the Socialist Party of Lilian Marijnissen, Jannie Visscher, Tiny Kox, Gerrie Elfrink and Sarah Dobbe (I know Gerrie and Sarah as Socialist councillors in Arnhem and Gerry as a former Socialist Party Elderman in Arnhem), and certainly more leftwing than Attje Kuiken's Labour Party, Jesse Klavers GreenLeft and the migrant Denk (Think) party.
People over PowerBlack Lives Matter demonstration in Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 20:10:13 GMT -7
Belang van Nederland (Interest of The Netherlands) BVNLWhy should you vote at the Provincial elections at 15 March 2023.Belang van Nederland (BVNL, lit. 'Interest of the Netherlands') is a political party in the Netherlands, led by Wybren van Haga. It is currently active in the House of Representatives as the independent Van Haga Group (Dutch: Groep Van Haga). Its three MPs split from Forum for Democracy in August 2021.HistoryBVNL was founded by Wybren van Haga, who had previously been an MP for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) before defecting to Forum for Democracy (FvD). In May 2021, Van Haga announced that he split from FvD in response to a poster it had released which compared the COVID-19 lockdown to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. He was joined by two former FvD MPs Hans Smolders and Olaf Ephraim. The group subsequently founded the independent group Groep Van Haga. In August 2021, Van Haga announced his intention to start a new political party.Wybren Ridley van Haga (born 31 January 1967) is a Dutch politician and engineer who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2017. He was initially elected as a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), but was expelled from the party in 2019, causing the third Rutte cabinet to lose its parliamentary majority. Van Haga subsequently sat as an independent MP before joining Thierry Baudet's Forum for Democracy party, where he was placed second on the party list in the 2021 election. He has since quit Forum for Democracy and created his own political party Belang van Nederland.IdeologyVan Haga claimed that BVNL will be a classical liberal party and "culturally conservative, but classically liberal when it comes to the role of government". BVNL also claims that individual liberty, freedom and the protection of Dutch history, cultural identity, and interests as the main cornerstones of its policies. The party also states that it supports technological advancement, a reformed criminal justice system, more controls on immigration and removal of immigrants with criminal records, and simplified tax codes. BVNL also calls for an end to handing over Dutch sovereignty and political power to the European Union, for referendums on Dutch membership of key EU treaties, and for a vote on Nexit (Dutch withdrawal from the European Union) if polls indicate public support for one. The party also states that the Dutch constitution and laws must come ahead of international law and policies created by supranational bodies. BVNL also calls for a more critical examination of big tech companies, for freedom of speech to be protected and "academic freedom" within universities. The party is also opposed to some of the COVID-19 lockdown measures taken by the Dutch government, arguing that social and economic collateral damage was not taken into proper consideration. Van Haga has described BVNL as less socially conservative on LGBT and gender issues than the FvD and JA21, which also split off from the FvD, and more focused on economic liberalism.Comment Pieter: Folks I am slightly jealous off you in the USA where you have the Democratic and Republican Party and the Independent voters. I am getting nuts of all these Dutch political parties. But it is due to the system we have and therefor I have to live with it.
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 20:23:21 GMT -7
The Reformed Political Party (Dutch: Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij, SGP) is a conservative Calvinist political party in the Netherlands. The term Reformed is not a reference to political reform but is a synonym for Calvinism —a major branch of Protestantism. The SGP is the oldest political party in the Netherlands existing in its present form, and has been in opposition for its entire existence. Since 1925, it has won between 1.6% and 2.5% of the votes in general elections. Owing to its orthodox political ideals and its traditional role in the opposition, the party has been called a testimonial party. Since the general election of 2012, it has held 3 of the 150 seats of the House of Representatives.
The SGP is a rightwing, Protestant fundamentalist, theocratic, Christian right, Social conservative, Soft Eurosceptic political party. The party is in favor of the Death penalty, Pro Israel on biblical grounds, has a support base in the Calvinist Bible Belt (mostly farming towns and villages, and also fishing towns and villages) and some Orthodox Protestant Dutch Reformed Calvinists in the cities. It has been in the parliament for about hundred years since 2022. The party leader explains why you should vote for a Christian party which supports Pro-Life issues, and blocks secular atheist D66 legislation suggestions which are Pro-Choice
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 20:26:52 GMT -7
50PLUS (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɛiftəx plʏs]; abbreviated 50+) is a political party in the Netherlands that advocates pensioners' interests. The party was founded in 2009 by Maurice Koopman, Alexander Münninghoff, and Jan Nagel. Henk Krol served as the party's leader from 2016 to 2020.
The party first participated in the 2011 provincial elections, in which it won nine seats. It currently holds sixteen seats in the provincial councils and two seats in the Senate. On 6 May 2021, Liane den Haan, the party's leader and sole representative in the House of Representatives, left 50PLUS following an internal dispute.
The ideology of 50PLUS is a mix of Pensioners' interests, Populism and Soft Euroscepticism. 50PLUS is a Centrist political party.The Party for the Elders 50Plus thanks the voters whom voted for 50Plus
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2023 20:47:33 GMT -7
Farmer–Citizen Movement - BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB)Carolina Ann Maria "Caroline" van der Plas (pronounced [ˈkɛrəlɑin vɑn dər ˈplɑs]; born 6 June 1967) is a Dutch journalist and politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. A former member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which she left in 2019, she is the founder and current party leader of the Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB).The Farmer–Citizen Movement (Dutch: BoerBurgerBeweging, BBB) is an agrarian political party in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Deventer, Overijssel (Province) in the Eastern Netherlands. The current party leader is Caroline van der Plas, who founded it in 2019. Unlike most of its agrarian counterparts in Europe, the BBB generally takes a populistic approach to its politics and tends to co-operate in Parliament with the more right-of-centre parties.HistoryThe Farmer–Citizen Movement was founded in October 2019 by an agricultural marketing agency and agricultural journalist Caroline van der Plas, in response to the widespread farmers protests that had taken place earlier that month. On 17 October 2020, Van der Plas was unanimously chosen as the party's lijsttrekker. It won one seat at the 2021 general election.IdeologyIn the 2021 Dutch general election, the Farmer–Citizen Movement focused its campaign on issues important to rural and agrarian voters, including pledges for a "Ministry of the Countryside" located at least 100 kilometers from The Hague, and a removal of the ban on neonicotinoids. The party called for a Right to Agriculture Act which would allow for farmers to have more say on agricultural expansion matters. This was in response to local opposition to pig and goat farms for public health, environmental and agricultural concerns.
It supports Dutch membership of the EU for trading purposes but wants to reduce the power of the EU "to a level of how the EEC was once intended" and opposes the EU becoming a Federal Superstate.
Caroline van der Plas has stated that the Party for the Animals and Wakker Dier (Awake Animal) are two of the party's biggest rivals, and the party uses its social media to provide the alternative perspective to be heard.
The ideology of the Farmer–Citizen Movement consists of Agrarianism, Conservatism, Food politics, Rural development, Populism and Soft Euroscepticism. The Farmer–Citizen Movement is not a Far right political party, but is somewhere in-between a Center Right political party and the rightwing political party. Many of it's members are former disappointed Christian Democrats of the center right and social conservative CDA party of Wopke Hoekstra. The voter base of the BBB consists of former CDA voters, former VVD voters, former PVV voters, former Forum for Democracy voters, some former Socialist Party and Labour Party voters and some voters of the Christian Christian Union and SGP parties.
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Post by pieter on Mar 18, 2023 12:09:55 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 18, 2023 12:20:56 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 18, 2023 12:24:12 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 18, 2023 12:26:58 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Mar 19, 2023 6:26:43 GMT -7
I hope that this populist party would become more centrist and it would be constructive
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2023 15:07:45 GMT -7
Jaga,
It is a typical farmer party like the Polish Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Piast" of Wincenty Witos, Jakub Bojko, Jan Dąbski, Maciej Rataj and Władysław Kiernik. It has a Christian Democratic and Populist Farmer movement roots and is less extreme than Geert Wilders Freedom Party (PVV) and Thierry Baudet's Forum for Democracy, which are 'hard right', 'Eurosceptic', 'Xenophobe' and 'Islamophobe' political parties and Forum for Democracy has antisemitic and Russphillian elements.
The Farmer Citizens Movement BBB of Caroline van der Plas is strict on migration, soft Eurosceptic and against the government environomental, Nitrogen reduction policies and thus agricultural policies, but it is not a far right, nor a racist or xenophobic movement and political party. The concept of the BBB party is that it connects farmers and the citizens of towns and cities that support the Dutch farmers. The BBB got massive support in the rural farming area's and from citizens in the cities and towns. The Christian Democratic CDA party was always strong in the rural area's and was a social conservative Rural party, with support from social conservatives in towns and cities as well. That Christian Democratic CDA supporters base in the rural area's, the rural Provinces was gone. A lot of former Christian Democrats voted for the BBB. And you could say that the BBB is a split off of the Christian Democratic CDA. Many members and politicians of the BBB are former Christian Democratic CDA voters, members, activists and politicians. Caroline van der Plas Irish mother Nuala Fitzpatrick, is a retired politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), who served as an alderman in the municipal executive of Deventer, a city and municipality in the Salland historical region of the province of Overijssel, in the East of the Netherlands.
Caroline van der Plas stil lives in Deventer in Overijssel. Her work as a parliamentarian is stil in The Hague, but her rural base is Overijssel, Deventer. Jaga, in general you know that I am not a fan of Nationalists, Populists (neither rightwing nor leftwing ones), dislike racists, xenophobes and antisemites. I respect Caroline van der Plas, because she is non of them. Maybe slightly Populistic, but she is an experienced journalist, former Christian Democrat (CDA person) and a pragmatic, realistic and fair politician.
It is sad that she is threatened and hated by people from the fringe far left and people from the far right. She took votes from the Freedom Party and Forum for Democracy. And some of the supporters of these Xenophobic political parties don't like that. Geert Wilders respects Caroline van der Plas, but he has some extreme party members, supporters and voters.
Unfortunately Caroline van der Plas is afraid of these threats, and has to live with that stress, but she will continue. Now she will have to negotiate with the VVD, CDA and D66 political parties and that will not be easy.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2023 15:08:58 GMT -7
I hope that this populist party would become more centrist and it would be constructive Jaga,
I think Caroline van der Plas party BBB (BoerBurgerBeweging, English: Farmer Citizens Movement) is more centrist, constructive, realistic and pragmatic than many people who voted for her party BBB realise. I didn't voted for her party, so this is not my endorsement or an advertisement for her. But from the Democratic point of view she worked hard in the parliament (House of Commons, de Tweede Kamer, the Second Chamber) since 2021 and so her victory in all of the 12 provinces and indirect in the Senate (De Eerste Kamer, the First Chamber) is well deserved. My center left D66 party lost.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Mar 20, 2023 10:30:27 GMT -7
FARM TO SENATEHow a Dutch party born out of farmers' protests won big in the Senate electionBBB was created in 2019 following protests against the government’s plan to cut agricultural emissionsByDiego LasartePublishedThursday 1:57PMTractors with protest signs parked on the outskirts of The HagueA populist party formed to represent farmers’ interests has become the third-largest party in the Netherlands after winning more seats than expected in the Dutch provincial elections on Wednesday (March 15) that determine seat allocation in the country’s Senate.
The four-year-old BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), known in English as the Farmer-Citizen Movement, looks set to win 15 of the 75 seats in the Senate, five more than prime minister Mark Rutte’s conservative VVD party. The ruling coalition altogether lost eight seats, holding on to 24. The left-wing coalition of the Green Party and the Labor Party is also expected to win 15 seats. Senators have the power to block legislation passed by the lower house of parliament.
BBB was created in the aftermath of large-scale protests in 2019 against the government’s proposed regulation of nitrogen-based fertilizer, as well as other environmental policies. The protests continued throughout the pandemic, and hanging the Dutch flag upside down became a way to show solidarity with the farmers.
The Netherlands has said they will cut nitrogen and ammonia emissions by 50% in the next decade after the European Union found toxic levels of nitrogen oxides in the soil and water. The government plans to achieve this by buying out thousands of farms and drastically reducing the number of domestic livestock.
Livestock farming in a country like the Netherlands creates an elevated amount of emissions because of how concentrated the agriculture is. In order to keep their farms at scale, farmers must keep animals in close quarters and constantly till the same area of land, not allowing the soil to regenerate.
Party leader Caroline van der Plas, a former journalist, hailed the results as a victory for regular citizens. “Today people have shown they can’t stay at home any longer. We won’t be ignored any more,” she said, quoted in the BBC.The BBB farmer party gained most votes in the Country side, in rural agrarian area's. The text on the banner on the farm carriage says; "the voice of and for the countryside' (Dutch; "De Stem van en voor het platteland".) A timeline of the farmers’ protest movementOctober 2019: Thousands of farmers travel to The Hague to protest new regulations. Their tractors are said to cause hundreds of miles of traffic.
December 2019: Protests continue, including significant blockades along the German border. The protests are organized in collaboration with German farmers.
October 2020: Five members of the so-called Farmers Defense Force visit opposition politician Rob Jetten late at night with a package containing several samples of meat “for his health.” Jetten is a vegetarian and condemns any protestors visiting his home.
December 2020: Protestors block a major food distribution center in Breda, snarling the supply chain and causing public opinion to turn against the protesters.
June 2022: Protests return after the government announces new plans to reduce an estimated 30% of all livestock farms in the country. Tractors block highways and burn bales of hay on the side of the road.
July 2022: Police shoot at a 16-year old boy driving a tractor during a protest. Although the teen is uninjured, the incident outrages protestors.
February 2023: Deputy prime minister Sigrid Kaag is confronted by protesters holding burning torches during a campaign event. Rutte condemns the incident.Why are Dutch farmers protesting emissions reductions?Carline Van der Plas with her voters base, Dutch farmers in a rural agrarian area in the Dutch Country sideThe farmers and other blue-collar workers that support the BBB are not simply opposed to fertilizer standards. Rather, these farmers–many of whom are from families who have been farming in the Netherlands for generations–are mad that European Union regulators are unilaterally telling them how to take care of their soil.
The protestors see farming as an inherent aspect of Dutch culture, with the Netherlands historically being one of the world’s agricultural exporters. Currently, the Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products, with estimated exports of 104.7 billion euros ($110 billion), according to Wageningen University. But, according to Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink, the government’s minister for nature, the country wants to change its approach to agriculture in line with emissions reduction goals to tackle climate change.
Critics have argued that the protestors are not taking the potential outcome of the climate crisis seriously enough. But the farmers have responded by calling for repercussions on major corporations operating in the Netherlands like Shell and Tata Steel. They argue that weather polluters cause much more damage to the environment, but are shielded from reforms by political lobbying of the government.
Last July, polling by Ipsos found that most Dutch citizens sympathized with the goals of farmers, but disagreed with their methods.🚜 Other farmers’ protests in Europe🇧🇪 Belgium: Last week, as many as 2,700 tractors blocked traffic and sounded their horns in the streets of Brussels. Protestors were there to voice their concerns over new regulations on nitrogen emissions.
🇫🇷 France: Earlier this year, hundreds of tractors swarmed into Paris in a demonstration against new pesticide regulations that farmers say threaten their bottom line.
🇩🇪 Germany: Several hundred tractors blocked roads across Germany in 2020, protesting the economic cost of environmental regulations.Every Day BBB Better, BBB farmers party election ad on farmers farmland in the Dutch country sideThe country side was filled with BBB farmers party banners, flags, posters and fences. Where you saw the rural Christian Democratic CDA signs in the past, this elections there were nearly only BBB signs, banners and flags all over the country side. The farmers turned their back to the 'former' rural, Christian Democratic, CDA which used top be the political party with the largest farmers support base.
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