Liane den Haan (Gold, before that 50PLUS) from Woerden opened the Utrecht farewell ball. She called current politics ugly. “Opportunism and populism are the order of the day, and it’s not about content enough,” she wrote in her suicide note. Nicki Pouw-Verweij from Maarssen leaves JA21 because of “disagreement about expanding the party”. Corinne Ellemeet (GroenLinks) from Abcoude needs time to catch her breath and to pay attention to her family. And Joba van den Berg (CDA), who has a house in Utrecht and Goes in Zeeland, thinks it is time for a new generation. However, she is prepared to act as a list pusher, she says to the PZC.
Experienced Utrecht politicians are quitting, but these MPs from the region want to continue
