"It shouldn’t matter who you are: everyone deserves a future"

Bestaanszekerheid – the need to ensure a basic standard of living for all – has become one of the buzzwords of the general election campaign. But few candidates know the reality of living without it like Mpanzu Bamenga. Bamenga, ninth on the list for D66, came to the Netherlands in 1994 at the age of eight, when part of his family fled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then known as Zaire. His sister, Irene, was raised separately in...