If the Party for the Animals wins more seats in the coming elections, the party also wants to focus more on “people things”. That said party leader Esther Ouwehand in conversation with News hour. “If we have more seats, we can tackle more other issues.”
In the broadcast, Ouwehand was confronted with a Party for the Animals voter who, on the contrary, interfered with the broadening of the range of subjects the party is involved with. “I think it is very important that all the time goes to the ‘animal things’. Animals have no choice, have no voice”, was her criticism.
Ouwehand said that, in her opinion, animals do indeed deserve a representation in the House of Representatives. “But besides that, the more seats we have, the more we can distribute the work,” said Ouwehand. “But the mission to stand up for animals will always come first.”
The discussion about broadening the PvdD’s range of tasks has been going on for some time. In 2019, before Ouwehand took over the chairmanship of Marianne Thieme, the party lost a seat when Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen left the party and took her seat out of dissatisfaction with the “narrowing” she said she saw. She wanted to stand up not only for animals, but also for the environment and people, she said at the time.
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