New Party for the Animals leader keeps to broad left-wing course (opens in new tab)

Christine Teunissen has used her first speech as leader of the pro-animal PvdD to signal she will continue her predecessor’s expansion into left-wing politics, rather than steer the party back into a narrower focus on animal welfare. Teunissen, who took over from Esther Ouwehand earlier this month, told a party congress in Den Bosch on Saturday that climate, animals and nature should come first, but that “the most vulnerable” went further than that. She said she was applying for “the...