Never saw the u/spez functie elders. For background, after the latest Dutch elections there was this politician called Omtzigt. He wanted to become the leader of one of the bigger parties, but not everybody was in favor of him, so his own party fucked him. That’s because he’s been very critical about some things the government has done the last few years (biggest thing is the “toeslagenaffaire” which really is a shitshow, I can’t even give you a proper synopsis).

The leaders of the big parties that wanted to form a coalition had one major objective, to not give Omtzigt a place within the government. So they wanted to seek a different position (“functie”)for him somewhere else (“elders”). Omtzigt is pretty popular among voters though. That’s what differs him from u/spez.

Edit: the current state of r/place is .