SOCIAL DEMOCRATS LOST 9 SEATS IN DUTCH PARLIAMENT BECAUSE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.05.2007 16:36 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Social democrat party of the Netherlands (PvdA)
is going to release an evaluation-report on June 1 by a commission
on the lost elections. In September of 2006 FAON made Dutch politics
aware about some candidates of Turkish origin, actively and openly
denying the Armenian Genocide, the Federation of Armenian Organizations
of the Netherlands (FAON) told the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist. When
the PvdA-party together with all parties had recognized the Armenian
Genocide in December 2004, sent one candidate away from the list as
he was an active internet-denier of the genocide, many Turkish voters
in the Netherlands reacted furiously saying they would not any more
vote the party.

FAON reminds about Nabahat Albayrak from Sivas, with Dutch and Turkish
nationality both, on second place on the list, then changed the view
on the genocide in some way. "As you may remember she finally said
"we call it genocide but in juridical way it is not"," FAON Press
Secretary Inge Drost said. Even more people criticized this turning
away for electoral reasons, which the party had done also on other
items. The result after this was a loss of 9 seats. Since Nabahat
Albayrak despite all this became secretary of State in the Coalition
the PvdA-party despite their loss is now a member of together with
Christian democrats and Rouvoets (genocide recognition motion) party
ChristenUnie, the PvdA – party policy will probably more than ever
be to protect her.