Netherlands reported this Friday the celebration of elections anticipated next November 22 after the fall last week of the Government of the prime minister mark rutte.
Through an official statement collected by the AFP news agency, the Government, now with zero power, made the date official: “The elections for the lower house of parliament will take place on Wednesday, November 22, 2023. The decision was made by the Government on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, Bruins Slot“.
“For the election of this date, the time necessary for political parties has been taken into accountthe viability for the municipalities and the preparations for the Electoral Council,” the text added.
Rutte announced that He will not be part of the early elections and, in this way, will thus end his fourth term since his inauguration in October 2010. However, the prime minister stated that he will remain in office until the elections that will appoint a new leader. “When a new government takes office after the elections, I will leave politics,” he said.
“Tonight, unfortunately we came to the conclusion that the discrepancies were insurmountable. For this reason, I will introduce you soon my resignation to the king on behalf of the entire government”, Rutte had declared at the time of his resignation before the media.
The Netherlands: what was the conflict that led to the dissolution of the Government
Rutte, from the party People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD, centre-right), wanted the other three parties of the government coalition institute a quota system to limit the number of children from conflict zones who are eligible for asylum in the Netherlands.
The government faced a major scandal last year over the management of refugee reception centers overcrowded to the point that in one of them there were hundreds of people forced to sleep in the open.
Rutte’s proposal was restrict the number of reunifications of children with their refugee family members, already established in the Netherlands at 200 a month, and threatened to dissolve the cabinet if his allies did not approve, Dutch media reported.
But conservative Christian Union party, which gave Rutte the support of the Protestant electorate in the center of the country, was radically opposed to that plan because of his religious convictions. The D66 formation, from the center-left, did not support the initiative either.
Source: Ambito
