public television, an investigation into racial profiling, and a new national holiday to celebrate the abolition of slavery. Besides, the party pledged to strive for a world in which people could live and work wherever they want. Simons also co-wrote a book ahead of the election called (Article 1: A new politics of equality). Simons was the lead candidate of Artikel 1, and its party list contained more women than men, several people from the LGBT community, and both the youngest (18) and oldest (82) candidate of the election. The party received 0.27% of the vote in the March 2017 election – not enough for a seat in the House of Representatives. Artikel 1 changed its name to BIJ1 (Together) in October after a court had ruled in June that the original name was too similar to that of Art.1, a discrimination expertise center. The party reiterated its commitment to be "against the current politics, which is full of hatred of Muslims, xenophobia, gender inequality, racism, socioeconomic exclusion, gender discrimination, division, exclusion, and exploitation". Amsterdam municipal council (2018–20) In March 2018, Simons participated in the municipal election in Amsterdam as her party's lead candidate. She campaigned on a platform of economic justice, radical equality, and the importance of intersectionality, and she told that she wanted Amsterdam to maintain its inclusivity. She also refused to participate in a debate after learning that she would have to debate Annabel Nanninga (FVD) one-on-one. BIJ1 won one out of 45 seats in the election and Simons was sworn into the municipal council on 29 March. Her party was most popular in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. A documentary by Ingeborg Jansen about her campaign called (Sylvana, demon or diva) premiered in November 2018 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Following the killing of Michael Fudge by police officers in February 2019, Simons requested a debate about the incident, which was described as a suicide by cop by the media. She said there had been excessive and unnecessary police violence and told that teenagers of color lived in an understandable fear of the police. Councilor Nicole Temmink (SP) said it would have been better to await the results of an investigation by the and Simons's comments were denounced by the rest of the council as well as by Mayor Femke Halsema. Simons also introduced motions to stop the municipality from fining homeless people for sleeping in the streets