Frans Timmermans on Stepping Down as Party Leader: ‘At that Point, You Don’t yet Realize How Radically Your Life Is Going to Change’

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For eight months, Frans Timmermans was virtually invisible. On the evening that GroenLinks-PvdA lost the election, the man from Limburg literally disappeared from the stage. Parliamentary reporter Jan Hoedeman managed to persuade him to come to The Hague for a final "Fishing with Jan" in Scheveningen. In a personal conversation, Timmermans looks back and forward. "When I quit, my brother said: 'You have no idea how relieved we are.'"

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As lead candidate, Frans Timmermans had already lost so much weight that Geert Wilders was forced to focus on substance: there were no low jokes left to be made about the weight of the GroenLinks-PvdA leader.

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For eight months, Frans Timmermans was virtually invisible. On the evening that GroenLinks-PvdA lost the election, the man from Limburg literally disappeared from the stage. Parliamentary reporter Jan Hoedeman managed to persuade him to come to The Hague for a final "Fishing with Jan" in Scheveningen. In a personal conversation, Timmermans looks back and forward. "When I quit, my brother said: 'You have no idea how relieved we are.'"

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Eight months after his departure from national politics, former GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans has looked back extensively for the first time on his election defeat and his farewell. In a personal interview with Het Parool, he talks about his new life, his job search, his failed election campaign, and the relief within his family after he decided to quit.