{"id":137763,"date":"2022-03-16T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=137763"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:11","slug":"last-minute-help-casting-your-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/03\/16\/last-minute-help-casting-your-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute help casting your vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still not quite certain which box you\u2019re going to tick on the ballot paper? Forget about listening to campaigning politicians. Don\u2019t bother with confusing election compasses and election manifestos as thick as your fist. We did the work for you and worked out what is actually relevant. This is what all students should know about the electoral platforms of the Rotterdam-based political parties.<\/p>\n

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Housing and education. Those are the political themes that affect all students attending EUR, and also the political themes they tend to be most interested in, judging from the election student debate and the interviews we had with students who are standing for election. So this is Erasmus Magazine<\/em>\u2019s guide to what the fifteen biggest political parties in the city said about those subjects in their election manifestos.<\/p>\n\t

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Diversity, climate change and nightlife<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although student housing and education are generally the subjects in which EUR students are most interested, they may not be the only subjects in which you are interested. Previously, the online magazine\u00a0Vers Beton<\/em>\u00a0wrote on what the various Rotterdam-based political parties have to say on the subject of\u00a0diversity<\/a>,\u00a0climate change<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0nightlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n

BIJ1 <\/h2>

Although this political party has only been around for a few years, its candidates have some ambitious plans with regard to housing. BIJ1 wants half the available homes in the city to be designated social housing. It is not clear which percentage of this is supposed to be student housing. Furthermore, the party wants vacant office blocks to be converted into apartments for young people.<\/p>\n

The party does not have a very strong vision with regard to higher education. It wants every education institute (schools and universities alike) to establish a diversity committee whose duty is to determine whether the student body is sufficiently diverse.<\/p>\n

CDA<\/h2>

The Christian party aspires to put a stop to verkamering<\/em>, the practice whereby homes built for families are converted into student bedsits, as the party feels that it negatively affects the liveability of residential neighbourhoods. However, the party is keen to emphasise that this is not supposed to be an \u2018anti-student measure\u2019, and is very much in favour of more student housing. The CDA, too, hopes to convert office buildings into student flats so as to fix the housing shortage issue.<\/p>\n

Apart from this, the party does not go into tertiary education, although it does want to involve student societies, study societies and student sports clubs more into municipal policy-making. The party\u2019s manifesto does not explain how it intends to do so.<\/p>\n\n\t

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