Hugo de Jonge thinks it is dangerous that there is a party in the House of Representatives that does not take the corona virus seriously. That says the outgoing Minister of Health in an interview with the AD. De Jonge refers to Forum for Democracy, according to him “a party that trivializes the seriousness of the virus”.
“The fact that you come across such a virus wappie on Twitter is up to that point, but now you can also hear those noises in the House of Representatives and I am really concerned about that,” said De Jonge about the party that grew from two to eight during the elections. seats.
De Jonge fears that a large group is susceptible to the ideas of the party leader Thierry Baudet, because of “corona fatigue”. Baudet regularly casts doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines and the severity of the side effects, which, according to De Jonge, could lead to not enough people getting vaccinated. Vaccination is “the only real way out of this crisis,” says De Jonge. According to De Jonge, talking to conspiracy thinkers does not make much sense, but it does make sense to people who have doubts: “You would like to keep them up to date.”
In debates in the House of Representatives, De Jonge has regularly clashed with Forum Member of Parliament Wybren van Haga. De Jonge, for example, accused Van Haga of spreading fake news about vaccines.
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