Dutch Political Parties Aren’t Worth It. Let’s just stay home!

Yesterday however, we learned, that indeed, this time around Dutch political parties at the local level have put even fewer candidates of foreign origin on their lists in local elections. In Rotterdam for example, a city where about half of the population is of foreign origin, only 20 percent of the municipal candidates have an immigrant background.


Mohammed Benzakour, blogger at the muslim immigrant blog wij blijven hier (“we stay here”) voiced the exasperation of many immigrants in the Netherlands with Dutch politics in his article “The Dutch Labour Party is not worth our vote” (English summary here).

Allthough the Netherlands has about 3 million immigrants within it’s borders, political parties have been ignoring immigrants for another four more years. Why would immigrants now all of a sudden have to make the effort to get out and vote? The walk to the voting booth is not worth it! Let’s just stay home.
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The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a time, yet It cannot be destroyed => Wolverine