GeenStijl: Bassiehof – Timmermans time is up; now Jetten Time

Keep tuned for D66’ers on Wednesday

A dialogue with the comic Johan Fretz (apparently to be very massive inside 2025): issues will not be going properly for Frans Timmermans due to the ‘work usually crushed by the media that the proper (identical to Kaag) is capturing at’. In line with Fretz, the director of PvdAGroenLinks should into the nation. Humorous, that is what the election marketing campaign is for, you must work within the Home of Representatives. That’s the reason Wednesday will probably be an vital day within the cupboard formation debate Hope, Confidence & Pleasure it have to be clear who will lead the opposition within the coming years. With 16 seats, D66 member Rob Jetten has fewer higher playing cards than Timmermans, who leads the nation’s second get together however is clearly struggling. The place Jetten frolics dynamically, Timmermans drags together with help.

Through the creation debate in February Jetten pinned Pieter Omtzigt to suggest, which was going from Timmermans who (should; did not sadly) trade with one other member of the get together Ronald Plasterk. The identical debate with Kim Putters two months later; Jetten stayed on message, Timmermans began a couple of cartoon.

See additionally the conferences: Jetten stands confidently in entrance of a waving Dutch flag and holds it flat NETHERLANDS FIRST-speech. At Timmermans that is occurring squad between a radical member and a md and the Public Prosecution Service should consider stories relating to a suspicious assertion about Wilders. At D66, not solely has Sigrid Kaag flown so she will be able to sweep by Gaza, but additionally the wookies, Glitter, head scarf, Transitierette and Tjeerd de Groot made the argument, which makes issues look a bit extra regular even for social liberals. Rob Jetten journey of sunshine.

Within the meantime, Timmermans is carrying kilos of additional baggage: the anti-Semitism that’s now entrenched in his get together. Julia Matser within the Regional Council 030 together with her From the river report, the Gelderland Paul Smits together with his name for intifada (and later his arrest), Sabine Scharwachter, the report about Herzog with the canine whistle ‘undesirable’, declaring Israel as an Apartheid State, boycotting Israel as a result of the nation has kids ‘starved on goal’ 40 p.c help for the Zionism motion = racism. Timmermans was just like the beast in October to be beneath management, however he didn’t achieve asserting it. Now the tamer is partly in charge.

Jimmy Dijk, the cardboard cutter from Groningen who revives the occasions of the SP sausage maker from Oss within the Chamber (now the 25 seats from 2006 of Jan Marijnissen) is certainly additionally in quantity (a -now) remoted. The remaining is small anyway (irrespective of how a lot NPO VOLT member Laurens Dassen tries to push it). Anyway, Wednesday will probably be thrilling. Timmermans’ time is analogous; it is Jetten’s time.