Volt will participate in next year’s municipal elections in fewer places than the party hoped for. 25 local chapters had applied, but many of them did not meet Volt’s “parity requirements” for itself. Project leader Anna Strolenberg confirms a report about this in De Telegraaf.
Volt is part of a European political movement and one of the core tenets of that movement is that half of the candidate lists are made up of men and half of women. And non-binary people can occupy the spots of both men and women.
But in practice, more men than women appear to apply, which means that the 50-50 split is not achieved. It will soon become clear in how many municipalities Volt participates.
According to Strolenberg, there are at least more than ten. Party leader Dassen said in July all that Volt can’t participate in everything and that “sometimes you have to go slower, to get further.”
Short preparation time
Volt wants to stick to parity, because the party considers ‘equal representation’ important. Strolenberg emphasizes that Volt is a young party, and the preparation time for the municipal elections is short. In a short time, the number of members in the Netherlands has grown from 1,200 to 12,000.
Volt took part in the parliamentary elections for the first time in March of this year, winning three seats. The municipal elections are on March 16, 2022.
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