And now, we go public
It is always a pleasure to read groenlinksers that make it to the broad media, so congrats to our planeet inhabitant Harmen Binnema & Co, with the article published today in the NRC "Afhaken bij formatie is historische fout van groenlinks".
Indeed the decisions of the Tweede Kamer fractie have been controversial, and some of the controversy have reached the media. When the election-program was agreed, we got newspapers articles critical of the choices made. Now we are not taking part in the coalition forming discussions, and that produces controversy as well. We remain a party that has lots and lots to debate. All good and well.
Nicer it would be, anyway, that some of this controversy would have been ventilated in the decision-taking instances of the party. Call it congress, call it partijraad, or call it landelijke bestuur. Even in the ALV from our afdelingen. Too bad that critical people such as Harmen has not -yet- produced the internal debate that we need... so much.
posted by Unknown at 12:27 AM
2 Comments:
Hoi Inti,
Volgens mij is in de partijraad in december een deel van deze kritiek ook naar voren gekomen. Maar het is altijd goed om het debat in de partij verder te voeren.
Naar aanleiding van het interview met Jos van der Lans in Buitenhof en het gevoel dat wij al langer hadden hebben we dit stukje geschreven om de discussie nog eens aan te wakkeren (vanwege de kerst later gepubliceerd). Want we hebben echt het gevoel dat GL hier uit het verkeerde soort bescheidenheid te vroeg is afgehaakt en wanneer komt zo'n kans weer voorbij?
10:45 AM
Look, I like the article, and most of the arguments I share (take a look at the previous post in this blog).
What I wonder about is if articles in the national press are useful... om de discussie nog eens aan te wakkeren. Don't get me wrong... I would have liked myself to publish something like that in the NRC. But I doubt if that is the way to get groenlinks to evaluate herself.
For example, the discussion in the last partijraad, if I heard properly, was besluitvorming... but no decision was taken. We have a congress coming... will your position take the shape of an agenda point there? will the critical members get to do something?
2:52 PM
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