Former Health Minister Hugo de Jonge has urged the ministry to keep its chat traffic on the corona crisis a secret. De Jonge wanted ‘a reassessment’ to prevent his WhatsApp messages from being published. VWS complied with this and still kept the communication secret.
This can be seen from a letter that De Jonge, Minister of Construction in the current cabinet, sent to the Ministry of Health (VWS) on November 10, 2022 and which is in the hands of de Volkskrant. The CDA member believed that his previous ministry was too generous with the planned publication of his Whatsapp messages during the corona crisis.
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport “would not consistently apply the grounds for exceptions that make secrecy possible”. “I ask you to re-evaluate the set of documents and apply the grounds for the exception where necessary,” wrote De Jonge in his letter expressing his views on the forthcoming publication.
Source: BNR
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