In collaboration with Frankwatching, research agency DamKam closely follows political developments. Not with polls, there are enough of those already, but with a monthly Twitter Monitor ; analyses based on tweets. In the second ‘Twitter Monitor Politics’ we see that the party leader elections turn out badly for GroenLinks, that Europe and the economy are the most important election themes and that the PvdA shows traits of ‘SP-light’.
Political themes
In May, we collected 306,000 tweets and filtered them on political parties and party leaders from our country. We then poland telegram data analyzed the data, interpreted it and made sentiment and semantic analyses. The results will follow later, but first we will look at the most striking developments in May. Two parties were in the news a lot by organizing internal party leader elections, following the example of the PvdA. Our monthly research shows that this works out a lot better for the CDA than for GroenLinks. The party bosses there will certainly be kept awake at night by this choice.
Party leader elections
The leadership elections with the six candidates, who toured the country, gave the CDA two weeks of higher sentiment: ‘Honest, Clear Henk’ Bleker was by far the most talked about on Twitter (49% conversation share) but new face Mona Keijzer achieved by far the highest sentiment (20% versus 4% Bleker). The elected leadership candidate Van Haersma Buma sits safely in the middle with 20% conversation and 8% sentiment.
Bleker received a lot of criticism for
A his many media appearances – Henk was inseparable from the cameras – but his sentiment score is still checking the availability of a domain name: tips and tricks significantly higher than that of GroenLinks party leadership candidates Tofik Dibi and Jolande Sap. Due to the internal struggle, which was fought out openly and the failure to support Dibi’s candidacy, the party leadership elections turned out badly for GroenLinks.
Dibi did achieve a much higher conversation share than Sap (66% versus 34%), but the sentiment of both is very Tofik an singapore number low. The ‘buzz’ surrounding Dibi will make it difficult for the party to push him aside after the elections. Or to give .