Six recently deceased City Council candidates will remain on Dutch ballots this week

Six candidates for city council seats have died before the election. The candidate lists are final and can no longer be changed, so these candidates will still appear on the ballots in the municipal elections on Wednesday.

André Lemmens (62) from the village of Schimmert died over the weekend. He was sixth on the BBB candidate list for the municipality of Beekdaelen in Limburg. Henk Vermeer, leader of the BBB’s parliamentary faction, said he spoke to Lemmens on Friday during a campaign event. “Friendly, enthusiastic, and committed as always. He never missed a single BBB meeting,” Vermeer said on the party’s website on Sunday.

On Thursday, Marian Eisden (59) passed away. She was 18th on the GroenLinks-PvdA list in Gouda. Eisden, better known as Dushi, was the foster mother of 15-year-old Jerryson, who was shot dead by police in Capelle aan den IJssel last year.

Alberto Blömer, number two on the PVV’s candidate list in Enschede, passed away at the age of 64 last week.

And the Noord-Holland municipality of Waterland had three candidates die in short succession: Nico Oussoren, number 12 on the CDA’s list, Jaap Zondervan, number 11 on the CDA’s list, and Arnold van der Zee, number 13 on the VVD’s list.