VIDEOForum for Democracy MP Pepijn van Houwelingen has admitted D66 MP Sjoerd Sjoerdsma during a debate that he will be dragged before a tribunal for his support of the cabinet’s corona policy. “Your time will come! There will be tribunals!”, Van Houwelingen threatened.
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Hans van Soest
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Sjoerdsma indicated that he felt threatened and asked Van Houwelingen to withdraw his words. The FvD did not. After a short suspension, Van Houwelingen said that Sjoerdsma should take it ‘not personally’, because as far as he is concerned he is ‘one of the many who qualify’ for trial at a corona tribunal.
The reason for Van Houwelingen’s comments was a discussion between the two MPs about statements by Forum leader Thierry Baudet. He compared the way unvaccinated people are treated with how the Jews were excluded during World War II. He compared the supporters of the cabinet’s corona policy with Nazis and NSB members. Sjoerdsma asked Van Houwelingen to distance himself from the statements of his foreman, which the FvD did not do.
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During the lunch break that followed, interim Speaker of the House Ockje Tellegen asked Van Houwelingen to ‘nuance’ his words towards Sjoerdsma. The Forum Member of Parliament then stated that his words were ‘never intended as any form of threat or whatever towards Sjoerdsma or anyone else’.
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On Tuesday evening, Volt MP Nilüfer Gündoğan also felt threatened by an FvD MP. During the debate on the corona policy, she mentioned that her mailbox was overflowing with threats from the supporters of Forum for Democracy and Think. According to Gündoğan, her mother also receives such ‘shit’ in the mail. Then Forum MP Gideon van Meijeren stood up and said: “I am extremely proud of our supporters that they are doing everything they can to convince Mrs Gündoğan that she must stop with this absurd policy.”
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