“The municipality is an organization and with that we can no longer take strategic steps and a larger whole is needed for that. The city council already established a year ago that we cannot perform all the tasks that we have to do,” said the mayor of Lopik in a statement. residents evening already know. During that evening, many Lopikers were critical of the merger plans. “We are becoming a ‘neighbourhood’ of that large municipality instead of a village. The rural character is simply taken away from us,” said one of those present at the time.
To merge or not to merge? Lopik really has a choice in municipal elections
