GroenLinks members voted to form a faction with the PvdA in the Eerste Kamer at a referendum early Saturday afternoon, shortly after members of the PvdA also voted in support of the proposal. A little while before, 77 percent of PvdA members voted in favor of the joint faction at a congress in Nieuwegein. The merger has been a long …
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 …
