Anonymous ID: 9d9165 March 15, 2023, 6:05 p.m. No.18515235   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5349

Rutte in muddy waters as provincial voters turn out for farmers and left alliance

The farmers’ party BBB is set to be the big winner in provincial elections in the Netherlands, dealing a blow to the government’s plans to reduce nitrogen pollution by buying out cattle farmers.

Less than four years after it was founded, Caroline van der Plas’s party is set to be the largest group in the senate, with 15 of the 75 seats, based on a 19% share of the vote. Provincial assembly members will choose the new senate in May. ‘The Netherlands has clearly shown that we’ve had enough of these policies,’ Van der Plas told broadcaster NOS. ‘It’s not just about nitrogen, it’s about citizens who are unseen and unheard, who aren’t being taken seriously, whose problems aren’t being tackled.

sauce:https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/03/rutte-in-muddy-waters-as-provincial-voters-turn-out-for-farmers-and-left-alliance/