Labour chairwoman Lilianne Ploumen and party leader Job Cohen have had a private meeting to clear the air after Ploumen criticised Cohen for being invisible, Nos television reports.

Ploumen made the remarks in a newspaper interview after announcing she would step down in January.
The timing was widely regarded as ‘unfortunate’ and tactless because the Labour party is performing very poorly in the opinion polls.
Many senior party members were quick to defend the former Amsterdam mayor. Ploumen also came under fire for not doing enough during her four year tenure as chairwoman.
Anger
Nos reports that Cohen was furious about the remarks, and made his feelings plain at a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party on Tuesday afternoon.
But after a flurry of phone calls with party officials and a face-to-face meeting, the two have now agreed to put their differences behind them.
Anger-led democracy
In its analysis of the party’s problems, the NRC said five social trends are standing in the party’s way: the individualisation of society, the political arena, globalisation, emancipation and ‘anger-led democracy’.
Individualisation is a problem because people have less time or energy to devote to solidarity with others. In addition, many of the groups which the Labour party used to fight for have now become emancipated or no longer exist.
The party is also disadvantaged in political debate because of its emphasis on decency at a time of ‘catchy one-liners’, the NRC said.
Broad
Trouw points out that Ploumen has always been clear about how she wanted to see the Labour party develop.
She has spoken many times of her wish to see the party become a ‘broad’ movement, Trouw says. In addition, she is disappointed that post-election talk of the left wing opposition parties working together has come to nothing.
Ploumen used to be a member of the left-wing green party GroenLinks. In 2002 she made the switch to Labour and five years later was party chairwoman.
Mayor
Cohen was parachuted in as leader before the July 2010 elections when Wouter Bos said he was stepping out of politics.
But Labour failed to win a majority of seats in the July election, and Cohen found himself defacto leader of the opposition.
Since the election, at which the party took 30 seats, Labour’s fortunes have plunged in the opinion polls, with some forecasting its vote would be almost halved if there was an election tomorrow.
Last week, a number of local PvdA groups said they were organising a campaign to try to revive the party’s fortunes and re-establish it as the main party of the left.