Nicolien van Vroonhoven on Omtzigt's departure: 'I tried to persuade Pieter'

Nicolien van Vroonhoven (54) must definitely pull the cart at NSC now that Pieter Omtzigt is withdrawing from national politics. Who is this former right-hand man of Omtzigt who likes to act in the background? Read it on Telegraaf.nl/nieuws/binnenland

"It's very, very hard for me," says Nicolien van Vroonhoven (NSC) about the departure of her party member Pieter Omtzigt. Other NSC members and politicians from the opposition and coalition also react to his resignation.

Nicolien van Vroonhoven succeeds NSC leader and founder Pieter Omtzigt, who is leaving The Hague politics for good. "I'm going to miss him terribly."

Twitter can be fun too, but it is mainly a schoolyard ventilation space for people who have just too few friends in real life and think that being a popiejopie in a digital reality makes them interesting people (follow us here), or it is used as a medium to achieve a certain goal. And that brings us to: POLITICIANS. Twitter at its narrowest and politics at its nastiest: a Rob Jetten who saws planks from thick wood, did everything he could to beh…

Group leaders in the House of Representatives praise the efforts of outgoing NSC leader Pieter Omtzigt. "You were a driven parliamentarian with a keen eye for justice and controlling power. Good luck to you," tweets D66 leader Rob Jetten.