The ad campaign
The issues
- COVID-19
- OH NO THE ECONOMY
- Housing (climate regulations means most construction work has been halted, we're short about 600k homes and that number is rising)
- Healthcare (budget cuts have resulted in COVID patients being admitted to German hospitals)
- Immigration (500 asylum seekers enter our country on a weekly basis without the prospect of housing or employment and an increased chance of dying of COVID)
- Climate (the debate is lively)
ExpectationsThe country is expected to take a right turn, with center right and right wing parties taking 75% of the vote and the left 25% of the vote. However, the VVD does not want to govern with the PVV, FVD or SGP which means the current center right government coalition(VVD/CDA/D66) will be stuck with 30% - 40% of the vote and has to include a left wing party into their government. A lot of people might also vote stragetically for the VVD because they don't want the PVV to win. The second most likely outcome is that the election will be postponed so the governing coalition is less hampered by their recent scandals.
The pandemic and a number of scandals have unearthed a culture of government mistrust of its citizens as well as public servants lying to clueless politicans and even judges for their own gains and protection. This resulted in our government resigning a few weeks before the elections. They stil govern though, they just can't make any new 'big' decisions without a parliamentary vote.
We have a parliamentary system with a parliament of 150 seats, a coalition of 75 seats + 1 can govern. Technically a smaller coalition could as well but it would need support from opposition parties to govern. This happened before when the PVV supported a minority government of the VVD and CDA. However, real power lies with our sovereign King Willem Alexander. Or at least it would be if his family wasn't politically neutered generations ago. So we have what we call a 'Constitutional Monarchy'. Where the king is still the head of state but has a purely ceremonial and advisory role and no real political power.
Battle Royale PoliticsPVV, VVD, D66... what the fuck. Welcome to the Dutch political system we don't have a 2 party system but a 10+ party system and a popular vote. There's also something called 'Wachtgeld (waiting money)' if an MP resigns or decides not to take their seat they receive money from the government until they find a new job. So in some cases people just join or create a party, show up in parliament for a few months and then resign or leave their party and keep their seat that's also possible and how some parties like Wilders' PVV were formed.
89 parties have signed up for the next election. But it is unlikely all of them will meet the requirements to be on the ballot.
VotingOnly people aged 65 and up can vote by mail. Other people have to vote in person during this pandemic. You could call this rigging an election or it could blow up in their face and only anti-vaxx people show up to vote because grandma forgets to mail and we end up with Emperor Thierry Baudet the 1st. Our government fucked up everything else lately so that would be a fitting end to Rutte's rule. Although at that point I think the Germans might intervene and I wouldn't blame them. Otherwise Democracy is well protected with Voter ID laws and voting machines.
Election day is March 17th 2021Who are you voting for Nintex?This election I might vote for the CDA but I'm conflicted. One of my high school friends is a local party member and I like what he did in our town. I also prefer Wopke over Rutte as Prime Minister. To strengthen his position I will likely vote on their number 2 Pieter Omtzigt. But there is the COVID stain and the clueless clown that is our health secretary who is a member of the party so at this point I'm undecided.
* = current government coalition
VVD (center right)*Peoples party of Freedom and Democracy (Our New Story)

Mark Rutte
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Our Prime Minister for the past decade. Doesn't take responsibilty for anything but has left the healthcare system and housing market in ruins. Was actually coasting to reelection until COVID-19 hit and a big scandal of ethnic profiling by the government made him resign. Technically a rightwing conservative party, they usually just take policies from other parties like the PVV and Groenlinks and repackage them as their own. Their current party program is quite 'big government' left but that's a trap for lefties because they'll never do any of those things. Rutte often brags about having no vision, saying that if you have a vision you are blinded by an elephant on the road or some shit.
PVV (right)Freedom Party (let's take back the Netherlands again)

Geert Wilders (Lawful Hitler)
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Former member of the VVD who is famous for his anti-Islam film 'Fitna' which forced him into hiding with police security 24/7. Was prosecuted and found guilty of 'hate speech' in a politically charged investigation but not sentenced.
Has sort of rebranded himself as the leading opposition party. Has to toe the line between his crazy base and moderate voters who are just sick of the VVD.
Always has been consistently critical of government healthcare policies. No one wants to govern with Wilders, so if he doesn't win big, he'll just be the biggest opposition party again.
CDA (center right)*Christian Democrats (now get going)

Wopke Hoekstra
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Party of the current finance minister, popular with women because of his good looks. I like him personally because he has a great vision for the country and has proposed rational and practical solutions.
Took over leadership of his party from our failing health minister Hugo de Jonge.
D66 (center)*Democrats '66 (It is time for new leadership)

Sigrid Kaag
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The wife of a former PLO member, diplomat and current interior secretary. She wants to become prime minister and her party would like the EU to become a federal superstate. It is believed that Rutte would rather have a job at the EU or NATO so he would've given her the job of prime minister in a new coalition government if she wasn't this unpopular. Public broadcaster is pushing her every week on late night TV and they aired a documentary, hasn't helped to make her popular.
PvdA (center left)Labour Party (For a fair future)

Lilliane Ploumen
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A once big social democratic labour party that has made itself irrelevant by selling out to corporate and NGO interests to the point where a former executive from Shell became their party leader. Public media likes this party a lot but only ~7% of the voters still care. They recently appointed a new leader and I think they just want to disband at this point or she just has to take the fall for their upcoming loss. The most talented and capable politicians in the party are currently the speaker of parliament and the popular mayor of Rotterdam.
FVD (edgelord right)Forum for Democracy (Take back the Netherlands with your vote)

Thierry Baudet (Chaotic Hitler)
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Won the senate elections in a Trump-like upset in 2019 but it all went downhill from there. A fan of Soros conspiracies and covered up for Nazi symphatizers in his own party also very Christian conservative and Jewish orthodox for some reason. Other party leaders tried to oust him in a coup but members of his party rallied behind him. Probably one of those parties that will carve out their own 2 or 3 seats for decades to come out of their loyal base. Currently running on a anti-lockdown platform. I liked it better when they were focused on grand visions for the future, individual freedom, the occasional PR stunt and optimism. Also very popular with the young ladies.
CU (center) *Christian Union (Give faith a vote)

Gert-Jan Segers
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The Christen Unie is a cookie cutter centrist party that loves Jesus. Sometimes they have these crazy bureaucratic ideas when they end up in government like a puberty register. This party is currently hampered by its blandless and will probably be decimated by the more popular CDA.
SP (maoist left)Socialist Party (Make an act)

Lillian Marijnissen
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The real socialists, they've done some great work recently in the opposition but are never rewarded for this by voters. They'll probably end up with ~10% as always. Some members soured on the party when the former leader appointed his daughter as the new leader (commies eh) at the expense of a fall guy. Some members soured on her because she had(has?) a relationship with a public TV broadcaster 20 or 30 years older than her. Oh politics. The platform is classic redistribution of wealth.
SGP (ultra conservative right)State Reformed Party (With Confidence)

Kees van der Staaij (Religious Hitler)
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Ultra conservative Christians. They've recently allowed women into their party and that's how backwards they are. They usually support the government in exchange for some symbolic victories (like closing stores on Sunday's for Jesus)
Groenlinks (hipster left)Green Left (More Future More Green Left)

Jesse Klaver
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The mostly white hipsters, students (of rich parents) and public servants who used to protest for Greenpeace. Amsterdam is now run by them and they've completely bungled it. The type of people that burn a forest to charge their iPhones and call it 'Green Energy'. Their leader was pretty popular with the ladies (a recurring theme in Dutch politics) but they've grown bored of him. They badly want to govern and the VVD has shown interest but it seems kind of unstable at the moment after their leader said he would ban all private ownership if it was up to him. Otherwise he just translates Obama and Trudeau speeches and copies their behaviour.
Code Oranje (center right)Code Orange (Time for ombudsman politics)

Richard de Mos
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A new party founded by the former PVV member Richard de Mos. Richard is a folksy guy and has attracted a number of very smart and competent people to join the ranks of his party to create what they call 'Ombudsman politics'. But he himself is tainted by a possible bribing scheme. Although Richard has said that if the allegations are true he will no longer be the leader of his party. A job likely reserved for Mick de Vlieger, son of Erik de Vlieger a famous Dutch businessman who now owns most of the resorts along the Portuguese coast. Erik has started a very popular podcast with his long time friend and investor Yves Gijrath, which is part genuine grievances and part a campaign vehicle for his son.
JA21(conservative right) YES 21 (The Right Answer)

Joost Eerdmans (Hipster Hitler)
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Following the FVD coup, two FVD members decided to form their own party. Joost Eerdmans was a prominent member of the LPF. The party of the gay professor Pim Fortuyn who was murdered on the eve of the 2002 elections by a Greenpeace activist after the media demonized him and the government failed to protect him. (which is why Geert Wilders is so well protected now). The other member is an obnoxious obese female blogger who has simps among the fringe right media. Oh politics.
DENK (inshallah right)THINK (#THINKdifferent)

Farid Azarkan
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This is literally a spin-off of Erdogan's APK that split from the PvdA. They said they would be the voice of minorities but have only fought eachother in a Gulen/Erdogan like spat which is on brand at least. A lot of minorities would really like a party that represents them and it is sad that most of those parties fail to deliver or use their trust as diversity tokens to further their own agenda.
BIJ1 (resetera left)WITH 1 (Participate for equality)

Sylvana Simons
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BIJ 1 is a new party formed by Sylvana Simons. A VJ and TV presenter from the 90's and early 00's. Miss Simons is now leading up the #BLM movement or at least, that's what she thinks she's doing. In reality she's just conning gullible people who want to be represented with insane platform that would make ResetEra blush. Their latest plan is to ban argiculture and farming.
50+ (conservative right) Ages 50 plus (The strength of plus)

Liliane de Haan
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We have a party for everyone aged 50 and up. Founded by the owner of a popular gay magazine, literally called the gay paper called Henk Krol (remember this name

) Now he's left the party and the members that haven't died of COVID are still running for some reason and they've assigned someone who wasn't a party member to lead them. They're mostly greedy boomers who want to deny future generations their pensions.
PvdD (animal right)Animal Party (Plan B: Idealism is the new Realism)

Esther Ouwehand
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Sort of the dark horse in Dutch politics. What people assumed was a joke has grown in recent years. The animal party has gained a significant following and has moved beyond 'just animals'. They now have a wide variety of policy proposals and that Wuhan wet market thing has made their plans like a ban on meat and automated chicken farms less radical. Considering their authoritarian tendencies and elitist white leadership I would say the party of cat ladies is more right than left wing.
Lijst Henk Krol (henk krol)List Henk Krol (protect which is good, change what can be better)

Henk Krol
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Henk formed a new party

GO2021 (conservative right)GO2021 (Realism and Grit)

Henk Otten (Fat Hitler)
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Henk formed his own party with some other former FVD politicans after participating in another party with the previous Henk and Femke.
Splinter (independent from party politics)Splinter (democracy in your hands)

Femke Merel van Kooten
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Femke Merel van Kooten split from the Partij van de Toekomst after leaving 50Plus with Henk Krol and started her own party because she believes that parliamentary members should be fully independent.
De Libertarische Partij (right) The Libertarians (More freedom, more life!)

Robert Valentine
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Yes, we have Libertarians. No they've never governed.
Jezus Leeft! (jesus)Jesus is Alive! (Jesus picked you, will you pick Jesus?)

Florens van der Spek
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This party believes Jesus is Alive.
Disclaimer: These pictures are not biased, I've simply taken their Twitter profile pictures this is how these people prefer to present themselves: as child molestors, cult leaders, hipster Hitler or otherwise.
The party slogans are also not created by me, but actually the real slogans of these parties translated. Although not all of them translate well into another language. There might be more parties running, I will add them in the future once I get my sample ballot or I read about it in the news
