Verdonk loses leadership battle for free-market liberal VVD party

Well, pretty much all the news is in the caption. Rita Verdonk will not be leading the VVD party in the 2007 elections. Instead, Mark Rutte will bear the torch. Stay tuned for mudslinging from the Verdonk camp, who will probably leak stories about election fraud within the next week. At least, that's my guess.

But for now there are at least two reasons to be happy. First, these are the first American-style primaries for a political party we've had in this country. This may mean we'll become a democracy some day after all. Second, Rita Verdonk, who has shown a huge lack of statemanship in mishandling the Ayaan Hirsi Magan/Ali affair, is gone from the center stage.

For now, at least.

I just hope Rutte will pack the same punch against the PvdA social democrats as Verdonk would have.

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