US EditionVan Hijum Steps Down as NSC Leader After Election Loss; Party Pauses Leadership Choice
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Under Van Hijum's leadership, NSC achieved a historically poor result in the 2025 parliamentary elections: the party went from twenty to zero seats.
Former party leader Eddy van Hijum bid farewell to the New Social Contract (NSC) at the party conference in Amersfoort. He wants to look for a new job and finds it "impossible to stay in The Hague with one leg, not even one leg." NSC is making a "conscious decision" not to appoint a political leader at this time, party chairman Reinout van Malenstein told ANP. "An interim leader would send the wrong message and would unnecessarily continue to ra…
Van Hijum steps down as NSC leader after election loss; Party pauses leadership choice
Former NSC leader Eddy van Hijum resigned from the party’s top leadership Saturday during the NSC congress in Amersfoort, leaving the party temporarily without a political leader. The move follows NSC’s poor performance in the recent national elections, in which the party failed to win a single seat in the Tweede Kamer.
After the disastrous NSC elections, former party leader Eddy van Hijum is leaving the party leadership. The party is making the "conscious decision" not to appoint a political leader at this time, chairman Reinout van Malenstein announced Saturday at the NSC congress in Amersfoort. "An interim leader would send the wrong message and would unnecessarily continue to raise all the dilemmas."
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