- Almost no parliamentarians in The Hague want to join the Digital Affairs committee because it is seen as career suicide.
- Hardworking digital experts like Hind Dekker and Lisa van Ginneken have been punished by their parties with low list positions.
- Current active members of DiZa (Martijn Buijsse, Barbara Kathmann, Jesse Six Dijkstra, Jan Valize) are placed in un-electable spots or leaving politics, except Marieke Koekkoek.
- Many parties (BBB, D66, CDA, DENK, SGP, SP, CU) never attend DiZa meetings despite the importance of digital issues.
- DiZa achieved a debate on dependency on US cloud providers and partially halted the migration of government email to Microsoft servers.
- Parties are now dismissing these experts, threatening digital expertise in parliament—a call to action via #NerdVote urges keeping digital-savvy MPs.
- The broader issue is that MPs strong on content are punished, risking neglect of IT knowledge in Dutch politics.