686:-- The local newspaper is RS, but the lack of coverage elsewhere must point to questions of his notability. The population of the area of which he was mayor (according to Dutch WP) seems to be just under 10,000. Members of provincial councils are local politicians, not national ones. I think I argued the opposite a few months ago and was contradicted. He comes on the fringes of notability at most.
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