“The situation for receiving refugees will not improve,” expects Rikus Jager, chairman of the Association of Drenthe Municipalities. “The dispersal law is an important part of solving the reception problem.” Jager responds to the motion adopted in the House of Representatives by PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB to temporarily suspend the dispersal law for asylum seekers in the Netherlands on hold to put.
The motion was supported by JA21, FVD and SGP and thus obtained a large majority of 95 out of 150 votes.
Jager expects that the regions that are currently leading in receiving asylum seekers will have an even harder time. “The problems will only continue to pile up in these places. The location in Ter Apel and also South-East Drenthe will suffer from this.”
The dispersal law should ensure that asylum seekers are better distributed across the country. Municipalities can be forced by law to open an asylum seeker center in extreme cases.
Initially, the initiators wanted to request the Senate not to make a decision on the distribution law next month. This met with a lot of resistance, because it is unusual for the House of Representatives to interfere with the work of the Senate. In addition, the motion was advised against by the current outgoing cabinet.
The weakened motion only expressed the wish to put a stop to the distribution law for the duration of the formation.