“A gang, chaos, controlled”, opposition parties are short of words to describe the state in which politics is now that NSC people have suddenly left the cabinet out of dissatisfaction with the exercise space on the Israel-Gaza file.
Wouter de Winther: The shards were carefully glued in the Lower House
Geert Wilders puts the blame in the shoes of NSC, which he again calls the ‘National Sabotage Club’. ,, Everything they touch turns into ruins. This hull, no Ramp cabinet still has 32 seats. The question is: how to proceed? ”
Shaky
It is a question to which political The Hague in the middle of campaign time must answer. The coalition of VVD and BBB rests only 32 seats, an extremely shaky basis. Can those two parties fill the empty places that the NSC people have left behind, or should they also be sent home?
The question is heavily on the stomach in several groups. Being too soft about the bumbling in the sheaf cabinet, will cost voices, but too fierce: because if VVD and BBB do not go to manage the country, who then?
Who will be the responsibility for the national administration on the shoulders two months before the elections? The Schipper about this yields a fascinating spectacle in the National Meeting Hall.
It is VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz who gets the jaws of MPs on the ground halfway through the debate. According to her, NSC and the other coalition parties were not at all so far apart for the Gaza race. The second cabinet trap? It was completely unnecessary, she sketches.
Shoved no space
A little later that image is reinforced by Prime Minister Dick Schoof. He explains that the discussion about the Gaza race Iin the cabinet was not settled at all at the end of last week. Yet former minister Caspar Veldkamp (Foreign Affairs) already led and explained in front of cameras that he would get off.
After departure NSC’ers against the Chamber: ‘There are no winners’
According to the bewildered Prime Minister, he then asked the remaining NSC people to stay in the national interest. “But I didn’t feel any room, not even to think about it.”
At times the debate sometimes looked more like an election debate. Geert Wilders hoped to be able to cycle into a ‘total asylum stop’, Frans Timmermans (GL/PvdA) continued to die Pro-Palestinian plans, Henri Bontenbal (CDA) again and again hammered on ‘decency’, ‘decency’, ‘decency’.
New ministers from VVD and BBB
VVD and BBB will now nominate candidates for the empty NSC places at the ministries as soon as possible. On Tuesday De Telegraaf already reported that the VVD will receive three of the five vacant ministerial posts, BBB two. The liberals are responsible for social affairs, foreign affairs and public health, while BBB is given the opportunity to staff education and the Interior.
Discomfort can be brightened up in the Chamber about how long it takes in the Netherlands between the fall of a cabinet and the appointment of a new team. A plan from CU to involve the king again in the formation did not get a majority.