Greenleft-Pvda Leader Timmermans: "There's an Asylum Seekers' Center a Five-Minute Bike Ride From My House, I Never Notice it."

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Just as Frans Timmermans, after a long period of settling in, is feeling comfortable in The Hague, the GroenLinks-PvdA party leader is facing competition from an unexpected quarter. In this interview, Timmermans answers readers' questions about his merged party, its "left-wing" image, and asylum. "There are people on the list who I think have the potential to be party leaders."

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GroenLinks/PvdA leader Frans Timmermans claims in an interview with the AD newspaper that he lives a five-minute bike ride from an asylum seekers' center. But that turns out to be untrue, as social media users point out. The nearest asylum seekers' center is on the other side of Maastricht, kilometers away. The party leader is accused of misleading the media.