Frans Weisglas Criticizes Formation Process: ‘Starting to Get Tired of It’

A ‘finished’ document should be available next week, but yesterday morning a small part of it ended up on the street, as PVV MP Gidi Markuszower was photographed with a sheet visible under his arm . The creation talks have been in full swing again since yesterday. The former Speaker of the House and VVD, Frans Weisglas, is very concerned about the creation. ‘Something that should be unusual is being normalised, that is collaboration with the PVV.’

Wilders said yesterday that it was ‘clumsy, but completely accidental’ that Markuszower was photographed with the document, but Frans Weisgla does not think so. ‘He’s parading there with his paper under his arm. He is very proud to have that under his arm, and he knows very well that there are photographers around him. It is another childishness and an attempt to improve your own situation so that this whole creation is already going on. I have to say, I’m starting to get sick of it.’

Agree?

Wilders said yesterday that the negotiators are ‘on the way’ on ‘parts’, and that it was a ‘good day’. Will the parties really come to an agreement? Weisglas: ‘I don’t know.’ But he is not ‘still happy’ with the apparent collaboration with the PVV. Something that should be unusual, namely collaboration with the PVV, is being made normal. People act as if it is a normal creation, and that also applies to the VVD and Mrs. Yeşilgöz.’

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Weisgglas fears that the creation of a ‘typical four-party cabinet with the PVV’ will replace a ‘real’ cabinet outside the parliament. “I hope I’m wrong, but it seems now that they are forming a normal majority cabinet. And if that is true, as a VVD member I am very concerned about it.’ He believes that in that case VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz will face many critics within the VVD. Weisglas: ‘And I’m one of them too.’

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However, Weisgla believes that the establishment parties should not throw in the towel now. “I don’t think they should have started, but they shouldn’t stop now. ”

Membership

Despite his concerns, Weisglas has no plans to cancel his VVD membership. ‘I have to think about it. My initial position is that I am and will remain a member of the VVD.’ He says that he prefers to stay in the VVD to stay critical with several others and keep people on their toes. Because if we all walk away: Eric van der Burg, Christianne van der Wal, Ed Nijpels and I, then you will give the other forces within the VVD a completely free boost. But I’m worried about the division and the direction.”