SP avoids closed meeting Board Room – Telegraaf.nl

SP avoids closed meeting Board Room – Telegraaf.nl

THE HAGUE –

The SP does not attend meetings of the executive committee of the House of Representatives (the presidency) as long as taking place behind closed doors. That party leader Emile Roemer announced Wednesday for the NOS microphone

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Ronald van Raak (SP) Photo:. ANP

According to him, the meetings of the Executive Board shall be public, also to avoid being leaked out. The discussion is driven by a story in the newspaper. It states that within the presidency tensions on the disclosure of the group costs. Which for the first time about the year 2014 brought out, but VVD, PvdA and D66 also want to publish two years before.

By the latter resist the PVV and the SP according to anonymous sources in the newspaper . According to Roemer and his colleague Ronald van Raak, a member of the Presidium, the fraction cost of his party are however disclosed. Raak says there is “deliberately false information” leaked from the closed meetings. “This presidency can not function if people abuse their position.”

Roemer calls it gossip a diversion in times of elections. “Then you apparently leaking from secret meetings lies. If that becomes the norm, then you better not go to meet in secrecy, “he said. “We will not go before the public is what is discussed in the presidency. There is nothing mysterious about. Then everyone can come to sit and everyone knows what the truth is, “said Roemer.

The President and Vice-Presidents of the parliament together form the presidium. That is engaged in the process and procedures, but also sets up and manages the budget of the Chamber expenditure. The agenda of the meetings of the Presidium is public. A list of decisions of the meetings shall be published on the website of the House

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