This is a decision due to the crisis created by the lack of agreement on asylum policy. The silent president has not yet decided whether he will present himself.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday announced the resignation of the center-right government he has led since January 2022 over a lack of agreement on asylum policy, which will lead to the calling of early elections in the Netherlands, and assured that you should “think calmly” when it will run again.
Rutte assured in a press conference after an extraordinary cabinet meeting tonight that “all parties have done everything they can to reach a solution, but unfortunately differences in migration are insurmountable“and confirmed that he will offer the resignation of the cabinet in writing to King Willem-Alexander, who is on vacation, but will meet him in person next Saturday because he is returning to The Hague.
In addition, Rutte assured that “he has the energy to continue as leader of the liberal VVD group”, although he has said that he “needs time to think calmly” if he reappears in some countries. elections expected to be held in the fallThis is reported by the Electoral Council.
The four centre-right parties have been at odds in recent months over how to deal with the refugee flow, but the situation escalated on Wednesday when Rutte put a limit on the table of 200 family members of reunited refugees per month and a waiting period. years before they can travel to the Netherlands, which is a red line for the progressives of D66 and the ChristenUnie (CU).
However, Rutte emphasized during the press conference that the decision to break with the government “has been unanimous” and has not been enforced by any specific party. “It was no secret that the four parties have different views on this issue,” Rutte emphasized, who assured that this is “a great pity, but it is a political fact”.
the leader of Christian unionMirjam Bikker assured that for her party “one of the most important values in the proposals is that children grow up with their parents so that they can take care of them. As a family party, we defend that and that is how we have valued the various proposals”.
The leader of Christian Democratic Call (CDA), Pieter Heerma, fourth partner in the cabinet, described the fall of the cabinet as “very bad news for the Netherlands” and criticized Rutte for making the discussion with his partners tense this week, “his attitude was irresponsibly harsh, almost recklessly ‘and it has not helped to manage migration better’ and ‘it has also not united the cabinet’.
Next Monday there will be a parliamentary debate in response to the fall of the cabinet.
Source: EITB
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