2022 Socialist Labour Party (Hennehouwe) leadership election

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2022 Socialist Labour Party leadership election
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← 2015 30 October – 20 November 2022
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Candidate Mirjam Schutte Carolijn Broeksma
First round (first count) 148 (38.3%) 91 (23.6%)
Second round 52,590 (65.1%) 28,187 (34.9%)
Leader before election

Rupert van Bleiswijk

 Elected Leader

Mirjam Schutte

The 2022 Socialist Labour Party leadership election was held from 30 October to 20 November 2022. The election was triggered by the resignation of incumbent leader Rupert van Bleiswijk after he failed to secure the SAE nomination for President of the Euclean Community.

Following van Bleiswijk's formal resignation on 26 September, the SAP's federal executive met to formalise the rules and procedures of the election. Nominations opened on 5 October, and closed seven days later on 12 October. The first round of voting took place on 30 October, with an electoral college of party leadership, representatives and elected office holders using a modified instant-runoff voting system. Carolijn Broeksma and Mirjam Schutte emerged as the top two candidates in the first round, progressing to a second round consisting of a wider ballot of party members.

On 20 November, Schutte was declared the winner of the election with 65.1% of valid votes, to Broeksma's 34.9%. She was subsequently elected as the federal leader of the SAP, and is expected to become the next Premier on 23 November.

Background

Rupert van Bleiswijk was elected as leader of the SAP in 2015. He led them to a first place finish at the 2017 federal election, and again in 2021. In the months leading up to the 2021 election, it was widely speculated that van Bleiswijk was considering a run for the presidency of the Euclean Community (EC), which raised questions about his long-term ambitions as party leader and as premier.

On 24 June 2022, van Bleiswijk formally declared his intention to seek the Socialist Alternative for Euclea (SAE) nomination for EC President, launching his primary campaign on the same day. In the first and only round of the primary, van Bleiswijk finished in third place out of the three candidates, garnering just 18 votes in the electoral college system. Van Bleiswijk was criticised domestically by a number of political figures, including some in his own party, for prioritising his own Euclean election campaign over his role as premier, which resulted in mounted pressure on him to consider his position following his primary defeat.

On 25 September, van Bleiswijk told a private gathering of SAP members of the Senate of his intention to resign as leader of the party and as premier, which he announced publicly the following day. He will remain in place in both positions until the new party leader is elected.

Procedure

The SAP's constitution lays the basic framework for conducting the process to elect a new leader. Prospective candidates needed to be at least 24 years of age, be a party member for at least five years, and have been a currently-serving elected representative of either the Senate, a regional legislature or a municipal council. Candidates also needed to meet any additional entry requirements as specified by the party's federal executive in advance of a leadership election.

The party's federal executive met to determine the rules of the electoral process and published details on 2 October. The nomination period opened on 5 October and lasted for one week, closing on 12 October. In addition to the basic requirements as contained in the party constitution, candidates were required to receive support from at least 20 other elected officials, of which 10 were members of either the federal or regional legislatures, and 10 were from outside the candidate's home region (neither category was mutually exclusive).

The leadership election took place over two rounds of voting. The first round took place on 30 October, involving all candidates who qualified under the nominations process. Voting in the first round was limited to an electoral college of SAP members of the Senate and regional legislatures, as well as members of the federal executive and delegates of the executives of the SAP's regional branches. The first round used a modified instant-runoff system, with candidates requiring at least 40% of preferences to automatically qualify for the final round. Voting was conducted exclusively at the ten regional headquarters of the SAP, and voters were required to preference all candidates on the ballot.

The two remaining candidates at the end of the first round progressed to the second round, in which party members elected the leader under a one-person-one-vote premise using a combination of postal and online voting. The deadline for postal votes was 16 November, whilst online voting closed at 23:59 EET on 19 November. The results were announced at an extraordinary party conference on 20 November, with the winner being sworn in as leader of the SAP immediately afterwards.

Campaign

Debates

Socialist Labour Party leadership election debates, 2022
Date Location Organiser(s) Broadcaster(s)     P  Present    A  Absent invitee   O  Out  Notes
Bekaert Broeksma Joosten Russo Schutte
17 October s'Holle,
s'Holle 		N24,
Groep Standaard 		N24 P P P P P
19 October Middelhoek,
Grotevlakte 		HNO De Eerste P P P P P
24 October Stavenisse,
Lower Stegeren 		Mediacentre ATV,
Courant+ 		P P P P P
30 October First round
3 November Remicourt,
Molenburg 		Nous Nous O P O O P Debate in Gaullican.
13 November Aarle,
Flamia 		SAP SAP Direct
(online) 		O P O O P
16 November Zilverzee,
Zilverzee 		HNO De Eerste O P O O P

Public reaction

First round
Date(s)
administered 		Polling form Sample size Bekaert Broeksma Joosten Russo Schutte Don't Know None
19 October HNO Debate
19-20 October Holstat 959 6% 5% 8% 20% 25% 12% 24%
24 October Mediacentre Debate
19-20 October Holstat 959 3% 8% 14% 29% 19% 7% 20%
Second round
Date(s)
administered 		Polling form Sample size Broeksma Schutte Don't Know None
16 November HNO Debate
16-17 November Holstat 1,024 16% 45% 14% 25%

Candidates

Declared

Candidate(s) Date of birth Notable positions Region Announced
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Brent Bekaert 		(1973-01-19)19 January 1973
(age 49) 		Flamish Vice Minister of Climate Change and the Natural Environment
(2018-2022)
Other offices
  • Member of the Flamish Assembly (since 2018)
  • Vice President of Future SAP (1998-2000)
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Flamia 		5 October
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Carolijn Broeksma 		(1969-08-05)5 August 1969
(age 53) 		Minister of Finance
(since 2021)
Other offices
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Grotevlakte 		5 October
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Ad Joosten 		(1958-11-11)11 November 1958
(age 63) 		Minister of Transport and Infrastructure
(since 2021)
Other offices
  • Minister of State for Taxation and Public Finances (2017-2021)
  • Minister of Economic Affairs (2007-2010)
  • Minister of Defence (2002-2007)
  • Minister of State for Welfare and Disabilities (1998-2002)
  • Member of the Second Chamber for Lower Stegeren (since 1994)
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Lower Stegeren 		10 October
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Paula Russo 		(1974-04-29)29 April 1974
(age 48) 		Member of the Second Chamber for Zilverzee
(since 2021)
Other offices
  • Chair of the Labour Affairs Committee in the Zilverzee City Assembly (2018-2021)
  • Zilverzee Vice Minister of Welfare (2014-2018)
  • Member of the Zilverzee City Assembly (2006-2021)
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Zilverzee 		7 October
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Mirjam Schutte 		(1968-09-16)16 September 1968
(age 54) 		Minister of Health and Social Affairs
(since 2017)
Other offices
  • Member of the Second Chamber for Lower Stegeren (since 2014)
  • Deputy Director-General of the Federal Health Board (2009-2014)
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Lower Stegeren 		6 October

Declined

Opinion polling

First round

Party members

Date(s)
administered 		Polling form Sample size Bekaert Broeksma Joosten Russo Schutte Don't Know
15-18 October Holstat 564 2% 15% 14% 8% 26% 35%
23 October MCG/OnSAP 435 4% 17% 15% 10% 31% 23%
25-27 October Holstat 435 2% 12% 17% 16% 27% 26%

Public

Date(s)
administered 		Polling form Sample size Bekaert Broeksma Joosten Russo Schutte Don't Know
17-19 October Holstat 1,089 1% 8% 17% 8% 23% 43%
23-26 October StemStem 979 2% 10% 15% 12% 26% 35%
26-27 October Iso-Groep Standard 940 1% 13% 10% 23% 23% 30%
27-28 October Holstat 435 3% 9% 13% 18% 24% 33%

Second round

Results

Candidate First round (30 October 2022) Second round
(20 November 2022)
First count Second count Third count Fourth count
Votes % Votes ± % Votes ± % Votes ± % Votes %
Mirjam Schutte 148 38.3 153 +5 39.6 186 +33 48.2 155 -31 52,590 65.1
Carolijn Broeksma 91 23.6 92 +1 23.8 107 +15 27.7 124.67 +17.67 32.3 28,187 34.9
Paula Russo 70 18.1 77 +7 19.9 93 +16 24.1 106.33 +13.33 27.5 Eliminated
Ad Joosten 62 16.1 64 +2 16.6 Eliminated
Brent Bekaert 15 3.9 Eliminated
Quota 155 ~40.0 155 ~40.0 155 ~40.0 155 ~40.0 Simple majority
Votes cast 386 99.2 81,040 85.9
Spoilt ballots 0 0.0 263 0.3
Abstentions 3 0.7 13,345 14.1
Registered voters 389 100.0 94,385 100.0
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