Ideology
Since the members of STIP are from all different political background one cannot speak of a specific ideology other that of a pragmatic view on local problems. STIP is not affiliated with a national political party. In the last years STIP has been part of local majority coalitions together with the PvdA (Labour Party), VVD (Liberals), GroenLinks (Green party) and D66 (Democrats). This gives a hint to the personal ideological preferences of the student members.
The lack of a classical political ideology has so far not proven a major obstacle during elections.
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“Commerce is greedy. Ideology is bloodthirsty.”
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