Sunday, July 12, 2020, 6:16 PM
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“Do you want your headline on the election poster? My answer is no. I much prefer posters that state our ideas.” With that statement, Pieter Omtzigt from Enschede indicates what he stands for in the election of the party leader of the CDA. The content, that’s what Omtzigt is all about.
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Omtzigt stayed in The Hague this weekend. It was a busy weekend with many interviews before and after the second round of voting. Mona Keizer dropped out of the party leadership of the CDA, so only Pieter Omtzigt and Hugo de Jonge remain.
Neither of them got fifty percent (Omtzigt 39.7 percent, De Jonge 48.7 percent) of the votes in the second round of voting, which requires a third round. CDA members can vote until Tuesday and then it must be known who will lead the party. The results can still go in any direction, especially now that Mona Keizer has advised her supporters to vote for Omtzigt.
‘Making government shield for the weak again’
Omtzigt wants to make the CDA bigger again, with themes such as opportunities for young people, restoring public confidence in the government and working on how the government can again be a shield for the weak.
Regionale thema’s
The person of Enschede also wants to broach regional themes. International rail connections that are good for the region and continue to insist on the need to upgrade the N35. He also wants more housing to be built for young people, not only in the Randstad, but also in Twente, for example.
Pieter Omtzigt has to sigh out loud when “again” a cooperation between the CDA and, for example, Forum for Democracy is asked. Thierry Baudet recently said that the CDA is committed to ‘destroying the Netherlands’. Omtzigt: “I have taken note of it, so he excludes the CDA. For the time being I am in favor of making the CDA as large as possible.”
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