Plasterk: 'Labour must pipe down and merge with GroenLinks'
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Plasterk: 'Labour must pipe down and merge with GroenLinks'

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Labour’s interior minister Ronald Plasterk has called for the PvdA to merge with GroenLinks in a realignment of the left. Writing in the Volkskrant on Monday, Plasterk said disputes between the main left-wing parties had cost them in last week’s election, when they won a combined 39 seats. According to Plasterk, the only way out for the left is to regroup and for Labour to merge with GroenLinks with the Socialist Party also joining the left-wing block. ‘Then we would have a broad-based left-wing party with different factions with clearly different views on certain subjects, like the British Labour party or the Democrats in the US,’ he wrote. Reacting to the proposal on Twitter, party leader Lodewijk Asscher said: ‘Cooperation with the left is important but Labour will represent Labour voters from its own strength.’ GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver said he would ‘leave the discussion with Labour.

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GroenLinks and PvdA members to vote for possibility of a new party in June
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1 week, 6 days ago

GroenLinks and PvdA members to vote for possibility of a new party in June

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The members of GroenLinks and PvdA will be asked at a congress on June 21 whether the parties should merge into a new left-wing party. The international instability is increasing, and the Netherlands is also changing rapidly,” the party chairs Katinka Eikelenboom and Esther-Mirjam Sent wrote to their members. The parties also joined together in the European Parliamentary elections, although …

Thousands of GroenLinks & PvdA members want parties to fully merge
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Thousands of GroenLinks & PvdA members want parties to fully merge

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Approximately “10,000 members and sympathizers” of the influential RoodGroen action group want GroenLinks and PvdA to merge immediately, spokesperson Frank de Wolde told the Volkskrant. There is great urgency for the left-wing parties to close ranks because “the world is on fire” and “the current Cabinet is on the verge of collapse,” he said. It is time to make decisions.” …

BBB and GroenLinks set to form administration in Noord-Holland
1 year, 10 months ago

BBB and GroenLinks set to form administration in Noord-Holland

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Negotiators say there is a ‘fair chance’ that farmers’ party BBB and environmentalist GroenLinks can overcome their differences to head a provincial administration in Noord-Holland. The two informateurs appointed to sound out possible coalitions following the provincial elections in March said in their report to the provincial assembly that a four-way combination of the BBB, GroenLinks, the right-wing liberal VVD …

BBB and GroenLinks set to form administration in Noord-Holland
1 year, 10 months ago

BBB and GroenLinks set to form administration in Noord-Holland

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Negotiators say there is a ‘fair chance’ that farmers’ party BBB and environmentalist GroenLinks can overcome their differences to head a provincial administration in Noord-Holland. The two informateurs appointed to sound out possible coalitions following the provincial elections in March said in their report to the provincial assembly that a four-way combination of the BBB, GroenLinks, the right-wing liberal VVD …

Former PvdA chairman Hans Spekman: cooperation with GroenLinks failed
2 years ago

Former PvdA chairman Hans Spekman: cooperation with GroenLinks failed

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Former chairman PvdA MP Hans Spekman sees the elections as proof that cooperation with GroenLinks has "failed." According to the latest forecast, the PvdA gained one seat and GroenLinks retained its seats, but in percentage terms the left-wing parties lost slightly in votes. According to the latest forecast, the PvdA lost 0.3 percentage points and GroenLinks 1.8 percentage points compared …

GroenLinks and PvdA will merge in senate after March vote
2 years, 3 months ago

GroenLinks and PvdA will merge in senate after March vote

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The Dutch Labour party PvdA and left-wing green party GroenLinks have agreed to act as a single block in the senate after the March provincial elections. GroenLinks senate leader Paul Rosenmöller and the PvdA’s Mei Li Vos presented their list of candidates to the public on Thursday, and outlined their plans to merge into a single group once the new …

GroenLinks and PvdA will merge in senate after March vote
2 years, 3 months ago

GroenLinks and PvdA will merge in senate after March vote

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The Dutch Labour party PvdA and left-wing green party GroenLinks have agreed to act as a single block in the senate after the March provincial elections. GroenLinks senate leader Paul Rosenmöller and the PvdA’s Mei Li Vos presented their list of candidates to the public on Thursday, and outlined their plans to merge into a single group once the new …

Labour leader supports merger with GroenLinks in Senate
2 years, 9 months ago

Labour leader supports merger with GroenLinks in Senate

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PvdA leader Attje Kuiken expressed support for merging the PvdA and GroenLinks factions in the Senate. "I am in favor of a next step to form a left bloc and support the party board's proposal to form one faction in a new Senate with senators from PvdA and GroenLinks." The Netherlands is at a crossroads, PvdA and GroenLinks members including …

Labour leaders want to take time to discuss merging with GroenLinks
2 years, 10 months ago

Labour leaders want to take time to discuss merging with GroenLinks

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The PvdA party board wants to take time to discuss more intensive cooperation or even a merger with GroenLinks, party chairman Esther-Mirjam Sent said in a letter to party members on Monday. She said the process must be careful and called for discussions about left-wing cooperation to be slowed down, "with the next parliamentary elections as a speck on the …

High profile Labour politicians hint at 'linking' to GroenLinks
2 years, 11 months ago

High profile Labour politicians hint at 'linking' to GroenLinks

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Two senior Labour party stalwarts have come out in support of a closer association with GroenLinks and have even hinted at at some form of merger between the two parties. In an opinion piece in the Volkskrant, Frans Timmermans, currently European commissioner, and Marjolein Moorman, who leads the PvdA in Amsterdam, said the challenges society is facing are making ‘greater …

High profile Labour politicians hint at 'linking' to GroenLinks
2 years, 11 months ago

High profile Labour politicians hint at 'linking' to GroenLinks

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Two senior Labour party stalwarts have come out in support of a closer association with GroenLinks and have even hinted at at some form of merger between the two parties. In an opinion piece in the Volkskrant, Frans Timmermans, currently European commissioner, and Marjolein Moorman, who leads the PvdA in Amsterdam, said the challenges society is facing are making ‘greater …

Labour willing to participate in formation talks as bloc with Greens: report
3 years, 7 months ago

Labour willing to participate in formation talks as bloc with Greens: report

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The parliamentary faction of the PvdA is prepared to form a bloc with GroenLinks in the cabinet formation process, was decided in a faction meeting on Thursday, sources told NOS. The PvdA still feels that a complete merger is going too far, but the party will be willing to act as one with GroenLinks in the formation process. The two …

Cabinet with Green, Labour parties one step closer: report
3 years, 7 months ago

Cabinet with Green, Labour parties one step closer: report

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The VVD and D66 seem to be heading for cabinet negotiations with the CDA and left-wing parties PvdA and GroenLinks. The left-wing parties said they were willing to join as one negotiating team - so without seconds - and that may be acceptable for the VVD and CDA, sources from around the formation process said to newspaper AD. The left-wing …

Labour politician calls for merger with Greens to build left-wing bloc
3 years, 8 months ago

Labour politician calls for merger with Greens to build left-wing bloc

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PvdA politician Frank van de Wolde wants the labour party to merge with GroenLinks to form a left-wing bloc with more influence, the 28-year-old from Utrecht said when he announced his candidacy for PvdA chairman, RTV Utrecht reports. He and some other PvdA members wrote this manifesto for closer cooperation with GroenLinks after both left-wing parties got disappointing results in …

Plasterk: 'Labour must pipe down and merge with GroenLinks'
8 years ago

Plasterk: 'Labour must pipe down and merge with GroenLinks'

Dutch News  

Labour’s interior minister Ronald Plasterk has called for the PvdA to merge with GroenLinks in a realignment of the left. Writing in the Volkskrant on Monday, Plasterk said disputes between the main left-wing parties had cost them in last week’s election, when they won a combined 39 seats. According to Plasterk, the only way out for the left is to …

Labour wants to merge with Green party after elections
8 years, 5 months ago

Labour wants to merge with Green party after elections

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PvdA leader Diederik Samsom wants his party to merge with GroenLinks after the upcoming elections. "Then you can be the biggest in one go", he said in response to a plea from GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver that the left-wing parties in the Netherlands work together, the Volkskrant reports. "I had with Bram van Ojik an agreement that the PvdA and …

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