PVV leader Geert Wilders keeps the tension in it: will he support the laws that the asylum policy has to make stricter or not? For a majority in the Lower House, support from the PVV is crucial, but on Tuesday Wilders, in the corridors of the House of Representatives, discarded the press and did not yet let us know whether he voted for or against the laws made by his own former minister Marjolein Faber (PVV).
The votes on changes to the law did not work very favorably for the PVV. The most important requirement of Wilders, that the Spreading Act – which divides asylum seekers over municipalities – is immediately withdrawn, received no support from Wilders’ former coalition partners. That applied to the proposal to make illegal residence in the Netherlands punishable.
In the parliamentary debate on asylum legislation, PVV MP Marina Vondeling said last week that her party would not support “weak extract” of Faber’s laws. The only thing Wilders showed on Tuesday was a message on X about the Spreading Act: “Very stupid of the coalition. The Netherlands no longer wants AZCs and certainly not a compound law!” Thursday are the votes about the bills.
It is striking that Wilders possibly torpedo the laws: the laws are unchanged and therefore from his former minister Faber. These asylum laws are just about the only thing she left behind, after eleven months of ministry. At the beginning of last month, Wilders dropped the cabinet when his coalition partners VVD, NSC and BBB did not want to sign a far -reaching ten point plan for even stricter asylum policy.
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Two -status system
For the PVV, it may be attractive on the eve of a new campaign to vote against Fabers Laws, with the argument that they are not going far enough. Wilders repeats since the cabinet who is taking advantage of his partners at the time.
For the remaining parties in the outgoing cabinet, VVD, NSC and BBB, the introduction of Faber’s laws is of great importance. In the run -up to the elections at the end of October, they want to radiate that they are decisive enough to get a stricter asylum policy through the Second and First Chamber, without the PVV still in the coalition.
The laws state, among other things, that there must be a two -state system, in which war refugees have fewer rights than people who are personally prosecuted because of, for example, sexuality and political activity. For war refugees it becomes much more difficult to bring family to the Netherlands. The laws also stipulate that permanent residence permits are being abolished, and that it is more often tested whether refugees can return to their home country.
In recent days, the cabinet has tried to get the room to support the laws. Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer (BBB), who has taken on the introduction of the two -state system, made a gesture to the CDA. This party is needed in the Senate for a majority.
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After persistent warnings from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND), the CDA had submitted an amendment to let the two-state system go into six months later that was rejected. In this way, that system would come simultaneously with the introduction of the EU migration pact, which would save a lot of administrative work for the IND. Keijzer promised on Monday that the new system is being introduced in phases. The timing will also depend on an implementation test that is expected in September. The CDA does not get its way with that. Party leader Henri Bontenbal said in the Chamber that, according to him, Keijzer “confirms in the letter that the IND can handle it difficult.” He believes that the objections of the CDA “did not come a good answer.”
Bontenbal did not know on Tuesday afternoon whether the CDA will now definitely vote against the asylum laws on Thursday. In the Lower House the CDA is not necessary for a majority, but after the summer in the Senate it is.
Whatever the CDA does, the PVV is decisive in the Lower House. Keijzer also tried to spawn Wilders in her letter of parliament, by immediately introducing the stricter rules for n00 when the law comes into effect. It is now waiting whether Wilders has been satisfied, or whether he would rather vote the laws. On Tuesday evening Wilders may give more clarity if he is present at a protest against the arrival of an asylum seekers’ center in Helmond.
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