“It will be a surprise to many that I’m standing here,” said likely new PM at press conference.

He previously led his country’s General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and prior to that was national terrorism chief. He also steered the national authority on migration decision and services between 1999 and 2003, which likely caught the eye of radical-right, anti-Islam Wilders.

Politics collapse into natsec self-reflexion continues apace

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Dick

Schoof

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Only his friends can call him Dick Schoof.

    Also, saying ‘Dick Schoof’ in a caricatured Dutch accent is pleasing to me.