The party’s popularity also declined sharply locally. In the 2006 elections, the party plummeted from 14 to 3 seats. “The cake was gone,” Broos Schnetz explains, “we have had our job, but we also noticed that when you start governing, new politics becomes old politics in no time. I had hoped that we could be a little more visible as a governing party. , but that was out of the question. We simply had to stick to the council agreement. Then there is little room for stretching and debate.”
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about Utrecht Politics and Pim Fortuyn
