SP leader kept heart attack secret

Socialist party leader Jan Marijnissen had a heart attack six months ago, he admits in today’s Parool. ‘It began at six in the morning and by 11 I had been operated on,’ he told the paper. Marijnissen said he had no lasting effects but did feel better that the attack was now out in the open.

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