What’s the deal with the BIJ1 splinter group from DENK? A more ‘doctrinaire’ anti-racist et al party but not one catering specifically to the Dutch Turkish/Moroccan communities as DENK seems to do?
Iirc Simons joined up with DENK because she believed what they claim to be, and quickly left after realising what the party actually is. BIJ is more appealling to whites (you can imagine the stereotype) than DENK, which is more monolithic and somewhat old fashioned in its approach to identity politics (not just in the sense of being socially conservative, but being an ethnic machine block).
BIJ1 (or Artikel 1 back then) in 2017 was strongest, by far, in areas with a large Surinamese population - Simons was born in Paramaribo. They won a few precincts in Amsterdam-Zuidoost which has a large Surinamese population.
