Party Fvd (Forum van Democracy) Thierry Baudet and (PVV- freedom party) Geert Wilders must get involved in St.Maarten ; avoid a “political” turf war. | SMN News

May 8, 2019

Awareness Background State Secretary Knops (source Wikipedia)

It has been very quiet with the largest opposition parties on the discussion of the endless political conditioning of the VVD lead government towards St.Maarten. It almost is starting to feel like a “Goliath” and” David” story if you have any hope for a future. State Secretary Knops a well educated Minister Studied from 1990- 1995 Royal Military Academy Breda and 1996-1999 Public administration Erasmus University Rotterdam, he was deployed to Iraq as a policy adviser, as part of the military staff of the Dutch battlegroup commander of SFIR 5. People

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