Graves fissuras e escândalos internos, afectam gravemente a
imagem de o novo Partido da Extrema Direita FVD, na Holanda.
OVOODOCORVO
 |
| Henk Otten |
More cracks emerge in Forum, as co-founder is sidelined over
parliament job Politics
April 25, 2019
The founders of Dutch nationalist party Forum voor
Democratie would appear to be embroiled in a power struggle following the
party’s big wins in the provincial elections last month, Dutch media said on Thursday. This weekend, co-founder and forthcoming Forum senate leader Henk Otten gave an interview to the NRC in which he criticised fellow founder and MP
Thierry Baudet for moving into far-right territory and highlighted
disagreements over Europe and the left-wing indoctrination hotline. Then on
Monday, Otten said he was standing down as Forum treasurer, saying it was
difficult to combine the position with his other party campaigns and
forthcoming senate role. On Wednesday, however, Baudet announced on Twitter that
Otten was also stepping down as party worker in the lower house of parliament,
where he has been active since 2017. The decision, Baudet said in the tweet,
had been taken by the board. Otten, however, told reporters he knew nothing
about the decision, even though he is, and remains, a member of the party
management. The former banker, who co-founded Forum in 2015, told the
Volkskrant that Baudet’s action had been ‘impulsive’. ‘It leaves me neither hot
or cold,’ he is quoted as saying by the paper. ‘That is not the way I am. And
we are still talking about the division of duties.’ Forum is set to be the big
winner in next month’s European elections.
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
 |
| Otten and Baudet |
Cracks emerge in Forum voor Democratie after hard-hitting
interview Politics
April 23, 2019
Cracks emerged in the leadership of nationalist party
Forum voor Democratie at the weekend, with the party’s soon-to-be leader in the
senate criticising co-founder Thierry Baudet in an interview with the NRC. In
the interview, Henk Otten, who co-founded the party and will lead the 13-strong
senate grouping in June, criticised the way Baudet is ‘taking the party to the
right’ and flirting with alt-right ideas. There is, Otten said, no room in
Forum for ‘all that alt-right stuff’ and criticised Baudet’s 21-minute victory
speech after last month’s provincial elections. In addition, more people than
Baudet should be involved in setting out the party’s course and the party’s
hotline for reporting ‘left-wing indoctrination’ is ‘a misser’, Otten said.
Nor, said Otten, is he in favour of the party’s backing for a Nexit. And the
‘good people’ working for the party in the provinces have issues with Baudet’s
controversial and romanticised statements about a ‘boreal word’ and ‘white
dominated’ Europe, he told the paper. No comment Baudet and his fellow MP Theo
Hiddema have not yet commented publicly on the interview, but political
commentators have questioned Otten’s motives in going public. Is, for example,
the interview a pre-cooked plan to make sure that the party can continue appeal
to a broad spectrum of voters? The NRC, in its analysis, said the interview
would appear to show that Forum is seriously divided. ‘And Henk Otten considers
the party is strong enough to call out this division,’ the paper said. It
remains to be seen if Baudet and his supporters are prepared to take a more
back-seat role, as Otten would like to see, Volkskrant said in its report on
the divisions. The Volkskrant said Otten’s interview was putting the party
through a new stress test and points out that he and Baudet have clashed
earlier about Europe. Asked in February if it is the party leader who will
eventually chose the party’s course on Europe, Baudet said ‘naturally’, the
paper points out.
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário