Almost a million people watched the conversation with Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday evening in the talk show Op1. Presenter Sven Kockelmann spoke with the prime minister from the Catshuis for about an hour. About 959,000 people tuned in to the Catshuis special on NPO 1, reports Stichting KijkOnderzoek (SKO).
In the conversation, the prime minister said, among other things, that it was “usually justified” if he was criticized for being invisible during crises. He acknowledged that he was repeatedly criticized during the nitrogen crisis, the allowance affair or around the gas quakes in Groningen. Now Rutte wants to show himself more. “That’s why it’s so good that we’re here,” he told Kockelmann.
In addition, Rutte called the developments in Italy a “reason for concern”, he said about the election victory of Giorgia Meloni’s radical right-wing Fratelli d’Italia. By her party and the right-wing parties Meloni wants to work with “things have been said and done that make you say: there is reason for vigilance”.
The best viewed program of the evening was the NOS Journaal from 8 p.m. on NPO 1 (2.03 million). The channel dominated the evening anyway, because after the NOS Journaal of 8 p.m. Radar (1.68 million), the NOS Journaal of 6 p.m. (1.33 million), Spoorloos (1.29 million) and Evening Show with Arjen Lubach ( 1.25 million) the most watched programs of the evening. The most watched RTL program with 1.22 million viewers was the Half Eight news on RTL 4.