Annette Nijs
That’s it, I’ve had it. RTL Nieuws did some interesting research: it seems that our members of Parliament miss, on average, 20% of all ‘meetings’ in 2003. 20%. The only days that they have these ‘meetings’ or ‘assemblies’ are on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. All the other days, they can do other things. Besides that, they have 16 weeks off from Parliament as well per year. Only in 2070 of 9281 instances members gave a reason for the fact that they did not attend a meeting.
21 of the 150 members of parliament even missed 30% of all meetings in 2003. The worst ones? The LPF, the Socialist Party and D66.
The worst ones?
1. Ali Lazrak (Lazrak)
2. Janmarc Lenards (VVD)
3. Jan Marijnissen (SP)
4. Hilbrand Nawijn (LPF/Groep Nawijn)
5. Jelleke Veenendaal (VVD) (missed 40,6% of all meetings, mostly without giving a reason for it)
6. Femke Halsema (GroenLinks)
7. Luuk Blom (PvdA)
8. Joao Varela (LPF)
9. Lousewies van der Laan (D66)
10. Annette Nijs (VVD)
Numbers six and nine have valid reasons: they were pregnant and as such were given time off.
The other ones? Please don’t come back. If you’re taking our money you should be present.
Anette Nijs missed 55 of 96 meetings (there seems to be some error in the calculation machine at RTL Nieuws: 55/96*100=57%. That would be more than the number four on this list) .
Funny enough, she has 10 other ‘jobs’ next to her normal, political one.
She does seem to have time for that.
Strange huh.
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