Muntendam

Muntendam is a town inside the Dutch province of Groningen, municipality Menterwolde. Until 1990 it changed into a separate municipality, which boasted the name 'reddest municipality within the Netherlands', with a council of eleven containing 7 PvdA contributors and 2 CPN contributors. When a new mayor had to be appointed in 1980, it turned into assumed that it might end up a PvdA mayor as it had continually been. However, the then minister of the indoors, Hans Wiegel of the right-wing VVD, determined that this very left-wing a part of the Netherlands wished a change and appointed a D66 mayor.

This caused a cold reception and the primary time a Dutch mayor turned into now not officially inaugurated. Over time, but, humans started out to like him and when he moved to a larger municipality there was even an movement to preserve him. Not plenty later, the approach of appointing a mayor inside the Netherlands became changed, with the municipality putting up a request that's commonly accompanied.