My Vote Counts! The Citizens’ Initiative positions on work and social security: We are in favour of providing a basic income, so that everyone in the Netherlands has a dignified existence. Providing a basic income can also act as a catalyst for greatly simplifying our tax system. Working must pay off. That’s why we are…
Taking responsibility for the climate Based on humanistic ethics, My Vote Counts! The Citizens’ Initiative stands for encouraging people to take responsibility for our actions and to protect the planet for future generations. Climate and environmental rules are based on the idea of stewardship, in which we manage the earth with care and responsibility. Enforcing…
My Vote Counts! against violence, for diplomacy and propaganda My Vote Counts! The Citizens’ Initiative is against war. War is never the solution to a problem, but unfortunately sometimes unavoidable once all diplomatic options have been exhausted. We must be careful not to become aggressors ourselves, and therefore stop combat missions that are not in…
Fair measures, clear guidelines, independent review Farmers often feel unfairly stigmatised by the approach to the nitrogen problem and are asking for fair measures and clear guidelines. The main cause of nitrogen emissions is manure, which has a harmful effect on nature. Solutions – Buyouts or relocation of farms My Vote Counts is in favour…
More effective, efficient and smarter My Vote Counts! The Citizens’ Initiative has observed a hardening of society for years now. Organised crime, including the drugs trade, causes much nuisance and murderous violence. In addition, mental health care has been heavily cut back, which in recent years has regularly led to various fatal incidents. Politics is…
Power must return to the citizen, because politicians don’t handle it well The current political parties don’t handle your vote well. They lure you in with an appealing party programme, in which you see many positions you like. Once the elections have taken place and a government is formed, suddenly little remains of the positions…
“Do you vote? Do you feel heard? / Do you achieve anything? “No?” Makes sense. You vote for a person who doesn’t know you, and you don’t really know that person either. After you’ve voted for this person, this elected representative can do whatever they want… From dropping certain positions and putting them in…
Can you still see the forest for the trees? Do you hold the power? Do you have influence? Is your voice heard well? Yes? Then you’re fine! Stay right where you are. Trust in politics has been declining for years. That’s because we’re still saddled with a political system that originated in the 19th century.…
All eligible Dutch voters should be able to help decide on issues of social importance. At local, provincial, national and European level alike. This is only possible by holding binding citizens’ referendums on all important topics. This way, people become genuinely involved in political decision-making and direct democracy emerges. That is the challenge Walter Guijt…
At first, as an ethical humanist political party, we explicitly articulated at least 200 party positions; but stating our own positions actually clashes with our most important programme point… “the introduction of the self-learning and self-correcting Binding Citizens’ Consultation Democracy.” We want to give this model hands and feet by consistently representing the majority opinion…
