Former State Secretary Mona Keijzer forms an action group against the corona pass
State Secretary Mona Keijzer (CDA), who was fired in September because of her criticism of the corona policy, has formed a coalition against the corona admission ticket with two other initiators. In a manifesto They have drawn up under the name ‘Undistributed Open’ that the damage caused by the corona pass is “disproportionate to any public health benefits.”
According to the action group consisting of Keijzer, vaccine researcher Jona Walk and professor of probability calculation Ronald Meester, this does not apply to any form of corona admission ticket, whether it concerns 1G, 2G or 3G. Now that it becomes clear that this coronavirus will also become endemic, corona tickets should not be given a place in the ‘toolbox’ of a free democracy.
The manifesto was co-signed by former MPs Joël Voordewind (ChristenUnie), Marianne Thieme (Party for the Animals) and Michel Rog (CDA), among others. Professors Ewald Engelen, Jan Rotmans, Sascha Kersten and directors Martin Koolhoven and Dick Maas also support the manifesto.
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A petition of the action group that came online on Friday and calls on the government and parliament to immediately abolish the corona ticket had already been signed more than 32,000 times by midnight on Friday.
Not back in the House of Representatives
After five years as a Member of Parliament on behalf of the CDA, Mona Keijzer was State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate in the Rutte III cabinet from October 2017 to September 2021. She was fired because, on the day of the introduction of the corona admission ticket, she was in an interview with the Telegraph said that “can no longer be explained logically.”
She could have returned to the House of Representatives in January, because CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra moved on to the cabinet, but decided not to take her seat. Keijzer was already anticipating the action group that she has now started, because she said she preferred to play an ‘active, independent role’ in the public debate and wanted to voice a ‘counter-voice’.
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