Some 14 new political parties among 54 to register for upcoming parliamentary election
Fourteen new parties have registered to take part in the parliamentary election in October. That brings the total number of registered parties to 54, down from 70 before the previous parliamentary election in November 2023, the Electoral Council announced on Tuesday. Not all these parties will actually participate in the election.
The new parties include three from the region - Fryske Nasjonale Partij, set up by former NSC MP Aant Jelle Soepboer, OOS Limburg, and Lokaal Brabant. The last party has already decided to pull out of the national election. The parties from Friesland and Limburg will decide at the end of this month, NOS reported.
“Our 55 members will vote on this,” Chrétien Wetemans of OOS Limburg, who previously represented BBB in the Provincial Council, told NOS. The party’s main motivation for taking part in the parliamentary election is to give Limburg more of a voice in national politics, Wetermans said. “For example, the province has now allocated funds for the electrification of the Maaslijn, while that is actually a national responsibility,” he said. “The national government also still has not come up with compensation for the mining damage.”
Other new parties include Vrede voor Dieren (Peace for Animals), a split-off from the animal party PvdD, Hart voor Vrijheid, Nieuw Links, Partij voor Morgen, and De Linie, established by former 50Plus leader Gerard van Hooft.
If the new parties want to make it onto the ballot, they have to find 580 people to sign a declaration of support at the town hall and pay a deposit of over €11,000. All parties must also submit their candidate lists by September 15.
In 2023, 26 of the 70 registered parties actually participated in the election. In 2021, 89 parties registered and 37 participated.
