While D66 still embraces the referendum, one of the people who were of the party had it at the forefront in 1966 with "crown jewel" of the Democrats: Edo Spier (90), the eminence grise of the party.
In an interview that appears tomorrow in Trouw says the D66 prominently: "It's much too late for referenda We are woven into the European Union of 27 countries in '66 when we called for referendums Netherlands was still a little on himself.. . When we reasoned, you have to keep the four-year election, but interim developments move so fast that the people in between also saying should get something. " Now other parties embrace the referendum, according to Muscle afterthought.
D66 tomorrow hold a conference in Papendal near Arnhem. It kicked off a year of celebration. This spring is, after all, exactly fifty years since the initiative was taken to the founding of the party. That happened in October 1966. During the congress in October will the Democrats to celebrate extensively.
D66 is also responsible for the introduction of the advisory referendum, but rather the party sees a corrective referendum. Before that a constitutional amendment is necessary and can take a long time. Spier believes that the Netherlands rejecting the Association Agreement with Ukraine has become the 'laughing stock' of Europe. "Skip the foreign papers only after, you do not know what you read. Hello say. Solid country and then they do this."
Muscle criticizes the current direction of the party. That's what he is concerned, to the right. "There is a clear rightward shift of the whole society and we just do with it Pechtold doing well -. After Van Mierlo best party leader we've had -. But he's well on the right, he's a bit developments society. As we have never been established. That was never the intention. "
Muscle feels that after ten years, for Alexander Pechtold to move as party leader. In Jan Paternotte, D66 leader in Amsterdam, he sees a good successor.
http://www.trouw.nl/ By: Wilfried van der Bles / Photo: ANP
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