Netherlands: former Forum senator Henk Otten forms new splinter party
 

Henk Otten, the former Forum voor Democratie senator thrown out of the party for alleged financial impropriety, has launched a new party and is taking two other Forum senators with him, the Telegraaf said on Monday.

Otten’s decision to start a new splinter party means the nationalist party’s weight in the upper house of parliament has now been cut to nine, three fewer than the right-wing VVD. Forum emerged as the biggest party after the local elections in March.

The two senators who have joined Otten are Dorien Rookmaker and Jeroen de Vries were knownas his supporters, the paper said. Rookmaker had earlier tried to heal the breach between Otten and Forum leader Thierry Baudet.

Otten was one of the co-founders of the party but had been under fire since giving an interview to the NRC newspaper which was highly critical of Baudet and the way he was moving the party to the far right.

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Henk Otten, the co-founder of Forum alongside Baudet, now has his own party

Jeroen De Vries, who was Baudet's closest ally at Forum, now is in Otten's new party

and expected is that more will move into this party from Forum

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Jeroen De Vries

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Dorien Rookmaker

and another departure from Forum, Robert Brunke leaves based on he doesn't want anything to do with the internal power struggle of Forum, and he will focus on building his own party

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and another who leaves the far right FORUM for Group Otten


Caroline Persenaire, represented forum at the parliament of the province South-Holland


another blow for the far right here in my country :hehe:

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yes and these all left Forum because party leader Baudet took it into a too far right, anti-eu direction they did not agree with

and Baudet had Otten sacked because of ''tax problems, filling his own pockets'' excuse, but Otten told the truth how Baudet went too radical with his Nexit views

Baudet had summoned a live meeting for Forum in Zaandam last night


his entrance too :laugh3: our rtl news reporters said ''entrance like a popstar''


weird dancing dutch clown of politics confirmed :hehe: