over 3 years ago

Former TV presenter puts race on Dutch political agenda

Simons, a former television presenter who is arguably the country's best-known Black woman, leads a small party that wants to put ending racial inequality front and center on the political stage before and after this week's election.

Voting for the the lower house of parliament's 150 seats begins Monday and ends Wednesday. The party that wins the most seats will be first in line to form the next ruling coalition, a process likely to take weeks or months. It remains to be seen if Simons' BIJ1 party - a wordplay that translates as Together - will get enough votes to win a seat.

In this nation, long considered a beacon of free-thinking tolerance, institutional racism has become a theme amid an increasingly polarized national discourse touching on โปรโมชั่น slotxo issues including the divisive traditional children's character of Black Pete and racial profiling. The Black Lives Matter movement gave the debate new impetus last year.

“It was good to see that so many people said 'enough is enough' and they came out and spoke out,” Simons said of Black Lives Matter rallies in the Netherlands last year. "And I do also hope that they will use that same voice when we have our general elections."

Simons' BIJ1 is not the only party that has equality issues high on its agenda. Others include DENK, a party she once belonged to and that already has three seats in the 150-seat lower house. That party appeals mainly to Dutch voters of Turkish and Moroccan descent.

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