DWARSe amendments to election programme GroenLinks-PvdA

DWARS has submitted several amendments (changes) to the draft election programme of GroenLinks-PvdA, to make the programme just a bit greener, purple, and redder! If you are a member of GroenLinks and/or the PvdA, you can support these amendments. If an amendment receives 50 signatures, it will be tabled. We would therefore like to receive your signatures so that we can put our stamp on the election programme!

You can peruse the amendments below. This list may be updated later, so would keep a close eye on it. If amendments have been added after the news release was published (Sunday morning), this will be indicated. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to amendementen@dwars.org.

International

• Psychosocial support is a priority
• Strong UN
• A strong civil society
• Nuclear weapons out of the world
• Equal partnerships
• Development budget maintained
• Preparing for pandemics
• WTO, IMF and World Bank reform
• Biodiversity in the international context
• Fight against deforestation
• Abolish expatriate tax benefit
• Eye for carrying capacity
• Fast-track procedures
• Tackling nuisances
• Conditions for third countries
• Amendment on Georgia
• Amendment on EU climate policy
• EU enlargement
• European budget
• Countering pushbacks
• Peacekeeping missions
• Gender equality and minorities
• Effective return policy
• Coalition of the willing
• Education for refugee and migrant children
• Politics that works for young people too
• (Inter)national corporate social responsibility and sustainable trade
• Greening foreign policy
• Development budget maintained
• Stable Development Budget and Mental Health
• Mental health is a human right
• Israel - Palestine

Added on Monday afternoon:

• NATO standard is the maximum
• Scope for more investment in development aid
• Russia
• Defence, not armed forces
• NATO

Culture

• State museums free one day a week
• Attention to regional culture
• New distribution NPO
• More inclusive culture
• Introduction of national ‘city pass’

Education

• Basic grant
• A fair basic scholarship
• Equivalent mbo 1
• Equivalent mbo 2
• Compensating unlucky generation

Added on Monday afternoon:

• Appropriate education
• Making theoretical and practical equally important
• Responsible digitisation in schools
• Educational freedom for the child
• Better internships

Added on Monday night:

• Accessible public adult education
• Let children be children
• Equivalent mbo
• More balance at university: theoretical education
• More say in further education
• Basic skills are the foundation

Democracy and governance

• Fundamental rights for all
• Upper House back to its primary role
• Preventing scandals
• Politics that works for young people too
• A critical government
• More openness in decision-making and archives
• Real improvement in governance culture

Added on Sunday afternoon:

• Better support for House of Representatives groups
• Confidence in our elections

Energy, sustainability and mobility (added on Sunday afternoon)

• A liveable earth is more important than 1.5 degrees
• Ethical materials
• Examples of innovative solutions
• Not depreciating existing energy sources
• Train network expansion
• Pedestrians and cyclists
• Free public transport bikes at every station
• Free public transport for schoolchildren
• Fossil subsidies are a fossil concept
• Research into Negative Emission Technologies is needed
• We preserve refrigerators
• En route to free public transport

Privacy and digitisation (added on Sunday afternoon)

• Deposit for electronics
• Digital interrogation
• Responsible with information
• Abandonware
• Not just political ad
• Unclear facial recognition
• Pseudonymity must be protected
• Datasets for all of us
• Analogue police

Care and welfare (added on Sunday afternoon)

• Evictions only in extreme cases
• A finer transition in youth care
• Healthcare administration and fraud

Inclusiveness, empowerment and diversity (added on Sunday afternoon)

• Surrogate mother wanted!
• Adoption? €€€!

Economy (added on Sunday afternoon)

• Basic income as a replacement for benefits
• A solid foundation for all through basic income
• Greater certainty on rent allowance and lease
• A solid foundation for young people

Living (added on Monday afternoon)

• Better use of existing housing
• Ending homelessness
• Temporary housing is not a solution
• Housing associations as cornerstone of society
• No buying up social housing for profit
• Add maximum residential withdrawal

Motions we have not tabled but support:

• Stilter spaces
• Co-determination across education
• Studentov on all days
• Temporary supplementary grant maintained for students living away from home
• Ban autism conversion therapy
• Replacing validist language
• Easier financing care
• Countering wastage of medicines
• A European circular food system
• End to bio-industry
• Three stars better life
• Shrinkage of air traffic
• First trains then flies

Added on Monday afternoon:

• More development opportunities by solving staff shortages
• True equality of opportunity 1
• True equality of opportunity 2
• Subsequent selection