Jolande Sap was on Wednesday elected to lead the green party GroenLink’s campaign for the September general election with over 84% of the votes.

Challenger Tofik Dibi took just over 12%. Dibi came under heavy fire for forcing a leadership contest at a time when support for the party is waning.
After the results were announced, he said he had no regrets. ‘I fought for my ideals and I will continue to do that for GroenLinks,’ he told reporters.
Manifesto
Meanwhile, the party has published its draft manifesto for the election campaign, which includes calls for a 60% top tax rate and cuts to unemployment benefit.
The party wants to limit mortgage tax relief to mortgages of under €1m and phase it out altogether over a 25-year period.
The party also says ‘older people with a good income’ should continue to pay state pension contributions even when they are pensioners themselves. Unemployment benefit should be cut from 38 months to one year, but the actual pay-out should be increased, the party says.
GroenLinks, one of the five parties which signed up to the recent austerity measures, has been hit hard in the popularity stakes in recent weeks. The party now has 10 seats in parliament but opinion polls say it would win five or six if there was a general election tomorrow.