Governor Theo Bovens resigns: “Time for a new start” | 1Limburg

“I intend to make my post available and continue to act until a successor is appointed,” Bovens said in a statement. “It leaves room for a fresh start.”

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A motion of censure presented by the PVV was on the table against him, as against the provincial government. He would not be the person who would further shape the integrity policy. “There was a vote of no confidence. It does something to you, it affects you,” Bovens said in a statement. “It certainly affects me because nowhere has it appeared that I am the wrong person in the right place. I have always felt supported, never blamed. Not even from your States. But these latter ones. weeks the situation has changed. the fact that I myself am involved in an integrity issue. That’s what touches me the most. “

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Movement
The motion, which could possibly count on a majority, states that Bovens has repeatedly acted too cautiously and cautiously “in ongoing and persistent integrity issues”.

Vrehen debacle
He would also have withdrawn from “finding the truth” about the Vrehen debacle, the motion says. A whole story has developed around the now sacked director of the IKL and the former CDA MP Vrehen.

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Vrehen, himself a former CDA House MP, appeared as director of the IKL Foundation to channel assignments paid with provincial grants to his own operating companies. He was also paid disproportionately dearly for his work at the Foundation for the Conservation of Small Landscape Elements.

Since 2011
Bovens was governor since October 1, 2011. Previously he was, among other things, councilor, party chairman and municipal councilor in Maastricht and chairman of the executive board of the Open University.

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