Just to refresh your memory: at the end of last year, the Council of State forced our previous Minister of Health to announce whether he was going to release all documents that the NOS and NTR wanted to see. There were countless WOB requests from these parties, who wanted to monitor policy making, but Hugo de Jonge and his officials (CDA) kept lingering. And even when a penalty payment was announced, he indicated that he wanted to study that statement carefully.
Just before the weekend it became clear what possibly the cause of this undemocratic attitude was: the Department of Public Health interfered with the advice of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) at various times. This is apparent from a thorough investigation of the current affairs program news hour, that has analyzed various e-mail exchanges between RIVM and the ministry. It clearly emerges from this that there co-written the lyrics†
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