Utrechts Burgerberaad will soon decide whether or not to have fireworks during New Year’s Eve

And then it seems that the outcome is predetermined and PvdA member Rick van der Zweth does not understand that. “You should not record the results upfront,” he said during the debate. “Then you have a failure in the making, because you are already trying to steer the residents in a direction. That is what GroenLinks is doing here with their proposal.” But Dekkers was not impressed by that: “It is known that we are strongly in favor of a fireworks ban and that is why we want to mark that at the front.”