Laurens Dassen misses in politics what was normal in his youth in Knegsel

Omroep Brabant

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Laurens Dassen misses in politics what was normal in his youth in Knegsel

After three and a half years, party leader Laurens Dassen of Volt feels like a fish in water in The Hague. But when he sees the bickering in the House of Representatives, he sometimes thinks back to the solidarity that was normal in his youth in Knegsel. The football club Knegselse Boys, the brass band, the youth orchestra: he has fond memories of it. “When it comes to solidarity, politics is not really setting a good example,” Dassen said on We…