Two more political party leaders in the Netherlands announced on Monday their intention to exit national politics. Sylvana Simons, who leads BIJ1, and DENK's Farid Azarkan said they will step aside. Simons will not lead her party into the parliamentary elections on November 22, she told de Volkskrant. During the 2021 election, she secured one seat in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, for her party.
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Opposition parties in the Netherlands were pleased with the fall of the Rutte IV Cabinet. BBB frontwoman Caroline van der Plas tweeted a photo of herself smiling asking others to show the face they made when they heard the news. "Goodbye Rutte, Kaag and the rest!" writes PVV leader Geert Wilders. He said he has requested a parliamentary debate. PvdD leader Esther Ouwehand hopes for "the definitive end of the Rutte era.” She said, "Unprecedented that the prime minister created a new crisis in an attempt to save his own skin."