US EditionTilburg Residents Are Not Allowed to Participate in Decisions About Ringbaan West: No Referendum
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Residents could sign a referendum on narrowing the Ringbaan-West from December 18th to January 12th. Sufficient signatures were collected. On February 2nd, the municipal council discussed the preliminary request and decided against a referendum. You can read the adopted council proposal...
There will be no referendum on the narrowing of the Ringbaan West in Tilburg. This has been decided by the city council. Opponents of Hans Smolders' initiative claim it is an "election stunt." Several political parties believe the referendum is being used improperly. Niels van Stappershoef of the Tilburg VVD party describes the referendum as "a handbrake for residents to influence decision-making." "But it's not a political instrument for counci…
"A sore loser," "an election stunt," "political advertising." The Labour Party (PvdA), GreenLeft (GroenLinks), the Party for the Animals (PvdA), the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), and Ons Tilburg (Our Tilburg) particularly did not spare Smolders. PvdA council member Jansen called it a "fundamentally wrong choice" and argued that Smolders was using the citizen instrument "after he belonged to the political minority." "Just becaus…
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