Ploumen: also reports of sexual abuse of power within PvdA | Inland

“Sometimes I know about it and sometimes I don’t, because that of course also belongs to the party chairman,” said Ploumen about the reports. She does not say in the conversation what specific reports were involved and where and when they were made.

Aurangzeb asked Ploumen the question because the party chairman was a guest on TV program M this week, in which she said that John de Mol should have been more active in monitoring sexually transgressive behavior on The Voice. “If you ask something from someone else, you have to ask that of yourself too,” says Ploumen. According to her, this is done at the PvdA, among other things, with independent confidential advisers and a work experience survey. “I am aware that politics is a pressure cooker, which is attractive on the one hand, but can also be intimidating at times,” said Ploumen.

On Thursday, the Angry episode about sexually transgressive behavior behind the scenes at The Voice of Holland came online. Nineteen women told their story about band leader Jeroen Rietbergen to maker Tim Hofman, fifteen about a director and there are two complaints against coach Ali B, one of which is allegedly by a former candidate of the program. One of those charges is for rape, the prosecutor said in the episode. Also about former coach Marco Borsato were reports of immoral groping.

RTL decided to remove the TV program from TV immediately and announced an independent investigation with the producer.

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