DVHN Comment | SMS gate: that the motion of no confidence has been rejected is no reason for relief for Rutte. With its credibility, that of the coalition parties is also at stake

The Netherlands is faced with major problems such as the housing shortage, the nitrogen problem, the climate issue, the allowance affair, the enormous inflation, the flow of migrants and the war in Ukraine, but yesterday for almost a day it was about whether the Prime Minister, in his own opinion, should have deleted and archived text messages from his phone.

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