Emile Roemer nominated as new governor of Limburg | Inland

The States recommended Roemer (1962) to the minister for appointment as the King’s new commissioner. Roemer was previously acting mayor in Alkmaar and Heerlen and from 2010 to 2018 party leader for the SP in the House of Representatives. He was also chairman of the Boosting Team for the Protection of Migrant Workers.

Roemer succeeds Theo Bovens (CDA), who resigned in April, who left when Parliament doubted the integrity of the Executive Board. The deputies also resigned. Since then, Johan Remkes has assumed the governorship in Limburg.

On Friday morning, the confidential committee met in closed session in the government in Maastricht. Around noon white smoke came out and Roemer’s nomination became known.

The presentation had the necessary feet in the ground. On Thursday it turned out that two members of the confidential committee were not admitted to a meeting because they were unable to show a QR code. Group chairman Ruby Driessen of the Forum for Democracy in the States of Limburg announced that he had been banned from the committee meeting because of not showing a vaccination certificate. According to NRC, Pascale Plusquin of the Party for the Animals was also denied access for that reason. Plusquin did not want to comment on this, because members of the committee are bound by confidentiality, she said.

Driessen questioned the decision-making process surrounding the committee’s nomination on Thursday, because two members were unable to join the consultation. Forum for Democracy announced that it would not resign itself to the state of affairs and spoke of the “new QR society” disrupting the democratic process.

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