Member of Parliament Nilüfer Gündogan says she will return to Volt’s parliamentary group next Monday. Meanwhile, she is also expanding her libel and slander report “on the advice of her lawyers”, she reported on the talk show Jinek. Details are unknown.
Gundogan was expelled from the group last month after reports of transgressive behavior. She then filed a complaint against Volt employees who had expressed complaints about her, against the party board and against the two other MPs, party leader Laurens Dassen and Marieke Koekkoek. Last week the judge ruled that Gundogan should not have been expelled from the faction.
According to Gundogan, she can return to the faction. However, she thinks that the other party members have ended up in tunnel vision. “There was a time when we worked well together,” she said. “I have not been at work for five weeks because of this misery. I want to perform my democratic task again.”
The two other Volt MPs demanded Tuesday precisely that Gündogan would first withdraw her declarations before reconciliation could be considered. But Gündogan does not intend to, as it turned out in Jinek.
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In the talk show, Gündogan also repeated that she does not recognize herself in the stories that last week via NRC came out. The newspaper spoke to five people who had reported unwanted behavior by Gundogan.
“If it were true, then I wouldn’t go to the Public Prosecution Service?” she asked herself Jinek off. “Then I won’t go to the Integrity Investigation Board of the House of Representatives, will I?” Gundogan wants a new investigation into the state of affairs by a different research agency than the current integrity agency Bing. She states that because of the publication in the newspaper she now knows “what exactly is going on”.
Volt has on Jinek reported that “almost all employees and faction members” will call in sick if Gundogan were to return. “I think that’s a very big statement,” said the MP. “And yes, is it true? I don’t think so. I just can’t do much with that.”
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