The mayor of Amsterdam resigned. For the past eight months, he led the city with a diagnosis of lung cancer in the terminal stage
MISCHA SCHOEMAKER / Wenn.com / Vida Press The mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan resigned on September 18. Back in January 2017, he found lung cancer, which was not treated - but he continued to lead the city. Eberhard Van der Laan is one of the most popular mayors in the history of Amsterdam; Almost a million people watched his first interview after the diagnosis, that is, more than the entire population of the Netherlands of the Netherlands, excluding the suburbs.