She had lied about her past and told the press "there where no photo's of her in uniform" . The same night she got sworn in articles and photo's of her in Surinamese military uniform got published and it became clear she served in the Suriname Army under the Desi Bouterse Era
Seems like something stupid to lie about...many people were bound to have some sort of proof of that.
It was extremely short sighted and stupid. She was in office for 4-6 hours.
Here is some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomena_Bijlhout
She wasn't nearly as stupid when she cashed her subsidies/benefits for retired cabinet members for the full 4 years though....
She wasn't nearly as stupid when she cashed her subsidies/benefits for retired cabinet members for the full 4 years though....
Maybe that was her plan all along - 4 years of pay for 4 hours of work
The assasination of Theo van Gogh was a horrid thing. He was more then a director. He was family of Vincent van Gogh, an artist, columnist, theater writer, tv personality etc etc. He had wide exposure in papers and TV on a near daily basis. He also openly critizised the Islam on a daily basis on paper, word and film. You should check Hirshi Aly as well to complete the start 2000 sentiment change in the NL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
The Dutch where spared big terror attacks recently but those two murders shook our little nation and our cultural renouned tolerance to the core.
Fortuyn's party won rather large in the election a few weeks later and got asked to join the coalition with the Christians and liberals. That ended very badly, a lot of new captains on a steerless ship. It has a lot of comparrisons to the current Trump disaster going on. The coalition was riddled with bullshit, restlesness, ministers resigning etc etc.... Only lasted about 7 months then we had new elections and his party vanished. Wilders became the new right wing after.
As a prime example: a state secretary was in function for only a few hours. She had lied about her past and told the press "there where no photo's of her in uniform" . The same night she got sworn in articles and photo's of her in Surinamese military uniform got published and it became clear she served in the Suriname Army under the Desi Bouterse Era.....
It was a complete mess all in all and we where lucky the cabinet imploded and we could have new elections.