Farmer–Citizen Movement

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Farmer–Citizen Movement
BoerBurgerBeweging
Abbreviation BBB
Leader Caroline van der Plas
Chairperson Erik Stegink
Founder Caroline van der Plas
Leader in the House of Representatives Caroline van der Plas
Slogan De stem van en voor het platteland ("The voice of and for the countryside")
Founded 1 October 2019; 4 years ago (2019-10-01)
Headquarters Smeenkhof 12-d,
Colmschate, Deventer[1]
Membership  (2023) Increase 10,822[2]
Ideology Agrarianism[3]
Conservatism[4]
Right-wing populism[4]
Euroscepticism[5][6]
Political position Centre-right to right-wing[lower-alpha 1]
Colours      Lime
Senate
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House of Representatives
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States-Provincial
137 / 572
European Parliament
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Website
boerburgerbeweging.nl
Politics of the Netherlands
Political parties
Elections

The Farmer–Citizen Movement (Dutch: BoerBurgerBeweging, BBB) is an agrarian and right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands.[7] It is headquartered in Deventer, Overijssel. The current party leader is founder Caroline van der Plas, who has led it since its creation in 2019.[8]

History

The Farmer–Citizen Movement was founded in October 2019 by agricultural journalist Caroline van der Plas, together with Wim Groot Koerkamp and Henk Vermeer from agricultural marketing firm ReMarkAble, in response to the widespread farmers protests that had taken place earlier that month.[9][10] On 17 October 2020, Van der Plas was unanimously chosen as the party's lijsttrekker.[11] It won one seat at the 2021 general election.[9]

The BBB won the 2023 Dutch provincial elections, winning the popular vote and receiving the most seats in all twelve provinces.[12][13][14][15] Since the provincial councils elect the Dutch Senate, the party is predicted to win 17 seats in the 2023 Dutch Senate election, the most of any party.[14]

Ideology and platform

The Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) has been described as conservative,[4] centrist,[3] centre-right,[4][16] right-wing populist,[6][17] right-wing,[18][19][20][21] Eurosceptic[6] and centre-left on some policies.[3] While not a far-right party itself, some academics and journalists have described BBB as being supported by the far-right.[22][23]

In the 2021 Dutch general election, the party focused its campaign on issues important to rural and agrarian voters, including pledges for a "Ministry of the Countryside" located at least 100 kilometers from The Hague, and a removal of the ban on neonicotinoids.[24] The party called for a Right to Agriculture Act, which would allow for farmers to have more say on agricultural expansion matters, in response to local opposition to pig and goat farms over public health, environmental and agricultural concerns.

The BBB supports Dutch membership of the European Union (EU) for trading purposes, but wants to reduce the power of the EU "to a level of how the EEC was once intended" and opposes federalisation of the EU.[5] The BBB also supports Dutch membership of NATO and has called for providing Ukraine with F-16s.[25]

On immigration and asylum, the BBB supports accommodating refugees fleeing wars but prefers they be helped close to the region of where they are from rather than encouraging migration to the Netherlands and intends for most refugees to return home once the conflict is over. It also calls for immigrants to already be employed and financially self-supporting before moving to the Netherlands, and they must learn Dutch, work and pay tax in the Netherlands for at least five years before becoming eligible for permanent residency. The party supports deporting illegal immigrants.[5]

The party considers itself to support both food politics[26][not in citation given] and rural development.[27][third-party source needed] It opposes the Rutte government's proposals to mitigate the human impact on the nitrogen cycle.[28]

Party leader Caroline van der Plas has stated that the Party for the Animals and animal rights organization Wakker Dier are two of the BBB's biggest enemies, and that the party uses its social media presence to provide an alternative perspective.[29]

Electoral results

House of Representatives

Election Lijsttrekker Votes  % Seats +/– Government
2021 Caroline van der Plas 104,319 1.00 (16th)
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New Opposition

Provincial councils

Election Leader Votes  % Seats +/–
2023 Caroline van der Plas 1,479,695 19.23 (1st)
137 / 572
New
Province Votes (%) Result (seats)
Drenthe 33.51
17 / 43
Flevoland 20.81
10 / 41
Friesland 27.86
14 / 43
Gelderland 23.57
14 / 55
Groningen 23.56
12 / 43
Limburg 18.47
10 / 47
North Brabant 18.21
11 / 55
North Holland 13.76
8 / 55
Overijssel 31.27
17 / 47
South Holland 13.74
9 / 55
Utrecht 13.18
7 / 49
Zeeland 19.75
9 / 39

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ For other positions, see § Ideology and platform.

References

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External links

  • Official website Script error: No such module "In lang".
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