Rita Verdonk out of national politics

Rita Verdonk, who fought a leadership contest with the VVD’s Mark Rutte after the party’s poor performance in 2006, is out of national politics after her Trots op Nederland movement failed to take a seat.


Verdonk left the VVD to form TON. At its height in 2007, the party was forecast to take up to 30 seats.

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