Willeke Alberti thinks that Mark Rutte deserves a little more applause than he is currently receiving. She finds it mean how he is criticized. “Isn’t it normal how everyone treats each other?”
Life is comfortable if you are rich enough to keep your distance from all the things that go wrong in our society: Willeke Alberti, as the ex of multi-billionaire John de Mol, also has no complaints. The singer does not understand all the grumbling about retiring Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He did a good job, right?
‘Rutte is a human being’
Willeke, who normally never lashes out at other celebrities but was critical of Bas Smit’s concert last summer, believes that far too much criticism is leveled at everything and everyone in this country.
She leaves in the latest Privately her displeasure appears: “Isn’t it normal how everyone treats each other? Even if you look at what happened to the government. That even makes me sad, because what would we do without it? Mark Rutte also makes mistakes, but he is a human being, right?
‘Damn it!’
We can thank God on our bare knees with someone like Rutte, Willeke believes. “That man only wanted to do good for everyone. And then you see how it goes and that makes me sad. And that has nothing to do with the VVD or Rutte himself, but I love people. Get ready to rule this country right now. Bloody hell.”
According to her, a great prime minister is being lost to Rutte. “He really only wants to do good, Mark Rutte, I believe that. It’s just that people are good and honest, and of course they will sometimes forget something. Do you think it’s crazy?”
Forgetful
There is a lot of criticism about the fact that Rutte is suddenly forgetful at convenient moments. “He has been ruling for years and sometimes he has indeed said: ‘Yes, hello, I don’t remember that.’ But it is played to the man in such a way that they attack him as a person and it is no longer about the content.”
She concludes: “Politicians, like all of us, are also human and we all have to try to live and survive. I’ve always been like that, I thought that: I love people very much. It never matters to me how poor or rich someone is.”