Plush | Femke Halsema

Plush 'is the personal and frank autobiography of Femke Halsema about her years in national politics. Twelve and a half years Halsema was in the Lower House for GroenLinks, but on December 17, 2011 she said goodbye. She wanted to become an individual from representative of a collective.
In Plush 'Femke Halsema looks back on her life in the Lower House for the first time: from her early days as a new -baked member of parliament to loved party leader who was very visible in the public debate. She describes the impact that politics has had on her life. Moreover, the book gives a picture of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Dutch society with the murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, the passport affair around Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the rise of Geert Wilders.