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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 21:00
The PVV has presented its list of candidates for the European elections in June. At the top is Sebastiaan Stöteler, who is now group leader in the Almelo municipal council and in the Provincial Council of Overijssel.
In second place is Marieke Ehlers and in third place is Auke Zijlstra, who previously sat in the European Parliament on behalf of the PVV. Fourth place goes to Sebastian Kruis, councilor in The Hague and press officer for the PVV. Party leader Geert Wilders is the list pusher in twentieth place.
Wilders writes on The party did not win a single seat in the previous European elections in 2019.
A poll showed last month that a quarter of voters who want to vote on June 6 plan to vote for the PVV. This would give the party nine seats, concluded research agency Ipsos I&O. Based on the poll, GroenLinks-PvdA would become the second party, just like now in the House of Representatives.
Nexit
Earlier today, the PVV’s election manifesto was published, with the theme ‘Netherlands first’. The plans now no longer contain anything about a nexit, a departure of the Netherlands from the European Union.
The election manifesto for the recent House of Representatives elections stated that the PVV wanted a binding referendum on a nexit. In the previous European elections, in 2019, the party was a lot more confident and advocated a “soon” exit.
“Intensive economic cooperation is in our interests”, it now says, followed by the text that the PVV wants “no European super state”. “We will work hard to change the union from within.”
Islam
The text of the European election manifesto no longer refers to Islam. It also states that the PVV supports the fight “of Ukraine against the Russian aggressor”. What this support should look like is not explained.
The PVV is interested in European cooperation in the military field, but “not under the flag of the EU”. Wilders’ party also speaks out against a European army or a European Commissioner for Defense.
The party further writes that the Netherlands should be exempt from European regulations in the field of asylum, something that was also in the plans for the House of Representatives elections.
If the PVV enters the European Parliament, the party will become part of the Identity and Democracy group. This also includes parties such as the German Alternative für Deutschland and Rassemblement National from France.
2024-04-05 19:00:47
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