Prospective PVV MP withdraws after more revelations

The number nine on Geert Wilders´ list of prospective MPs for the June 9 general election has withdrawn after new relevations about her past, the Telegraaf reports on Friday.


Earlier this week, the PVV said it was responsible for mistakes in Mellony van Hemert´s online cv, in which she claimed to have earned a doctorate with a thesis on child abuse. Nor is she a registered psychologist, as the cv claims.
But it now emerges Van Hemert is the author of a book on a notorious child killing in the Netherlands which was dropped by its publisher because of serious doubts about its authenticity.
Illness
In a statement, the party said Van Hemert was withdrawing from the contest for ‘health reasons’.
Meanwhile, sitting Labour MP Paul Tang has become the latest prominent member of parliament to announce he will not be standing for election in June.
Tang, Labour´s financial spokesman, hit the headlines last year when it emerged he had leaked confidential figures on the government finances to the press ahead of the formal budget presentation in September.
Tang has been an MP since March 2007.
Animal rights
And a number of senior members of the pro-animal PvdD, which has two MPs in the current parliament, have launched a campaign to get sitting MP Esther Ouwehand back on the party´s list of candidate MPs.
Ouwehand has refused to comment on her omission from the list but says she hopes the party congress on April 25 will lead to her reinstatement.

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