Demonstrators with burning torches confront
Sigrid Kaag at election meeting
Politics February 20, 2023
Party
leaders and MPs from across the political spectrum have condemned the way D66
leader and finance minister Sigrid Kaag was met by demonstrators with blazing
torches at an election meeting in Overijssel on Sunday. Prime minister Mark
Rutte described the action as ‘unacceptable’. ‘Demonstrating is fine but the
intimidation of politicians needs to stop,’ he said on Twitter. Foreign affairs
minister and CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra said the protest was a ‘total scandal’,
and that everyone ‘and that means all politicians’ should be able to do their
job in safety. And Caroline van der Plas, from pro-farmers party BBB, described
the demonstrators as ‘total nitwits’ who should ‘behave normally’. Kaag was
surrounded by people carrying burning torches when she arrived in the
Overijssel town of Diepheim for an afternoon debate. Kaag had come to the town
for a provincial election meeting but had to walk the last 150 metres to the
hall because the road was blocked by tractors. Kaag spoke to the demonstrators
for several minutes before going into the meeting. Warm welcome Earlier in the
day, a group calling itself Strijders Twente, had called for a ‘warm welcome’
for Kaag, who was aware of the demonstration, broadcaster NOS said. A week ago,
conspiracy theorist Max van der B was sentenced to five months in jail on
appeal for threatening the minister in January 2022 by standing outside her
home with a burning torch. Kaag said at the time she felt his actions to be
‘extremely intimidating’.
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