BBB chief Caroline van der Plas says she won’t be
prime minister
July 27,
2023
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/07/bbb-chief-caroline-van-der-plas-says-she-wont-be-prime-minister/
Caroline
van der Plas, leader of pro-farmers BBB, has told the Telegraaf in an interview
she will not be prime minister even if her party is the biggest after the November
22 vote.
The party,
currently riding high in the polls, is in talks with someone who has
“international experience” and, Van der Plas said, she hopes to be able to
present the party’s prime ministerial candidate before Sunday when she goes on
holiday.
“If he or
she says yes, then it is an easy decision for me,” she told the paper. “Then I
won’t be prime minister.” Instead, she said, she would prefer to stay in
parliament and lead the parliamentary party.
The job of
prime minister would be an “enormous attack” on her private life, the BBB’s
sole MP said. In addition, she said, she was not looking forward to all the
travel involved and meeting foreign leaders.
“There is nothing wrong with my English, but I
don’t want to put on decent clothes and fly all over the world. I would have to
wear heels and I can’t walk in them,” she said. In addition, the BBB founder
said she is afraid of flying.
Van der
Plas also said she enjoys working as an MP. “And I think I have not been an MP
for long enough to be a prime minister,” she said.
In the most
recent poll of polls, the BBB, VVD and GroenLinks/PvdA combination are all
vying for the top spot with between 16% and 18% support each.
Much,
however, depends on Pieter Omtzigt, the former CDA parliamentarian who quit the
party and is now an independent.
He has not
yet said what he plans to do about the election, but all the polls suggest a
party led by him would be the biggest. Omtzigt has said he will not join forces
with the BBB.
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