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Dutch Farmers’ Party Election

The success of a newly created farmer-based political party in the Netherlands in last week’s elections will establish the party as one of the largest in the Dutch Senate and could impact the government’s proposed nitrogen emissions reduction plans. Here’s a rough timeline of how and what happened. In 2019, the BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) or Farmer-Citizen Movement was founded by ag journalist Caroline van der Plas. The BBB was born out of farmer protests that year against the Dutch government’s plans to comply with EU environmental policy restricting nitrogen emissions. In the 2021 general election, Ms. van der Plas won a seat in the Dutch House; she was and is the only elected BBB party member, and her seat is one o...

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