Lazia, 31 August 2020 — President Emiel van der Huijsen has put to citizens the question of whether the Confederation should ban the Dutch party PNVD. Citing a petition to ban the party, whose policies he described as "absolutely disgusting and abominable in every way possible", he asked how people felt about "banning a political party on the sole basis of its policies".
Citing a petition against the party, whose policies he called “absolutely disgusting and abominable in every way possible”, the president asked citizens how they felt about banning a political party solely on the basis of its policies. The question was characteristic of the Confederation’s fondness for putting difficult matters to open public debate.