Is Minister Marjolein Faber (asylum and migration, PVV) soon, when her asylum laws are discussed by the House of Representatives, will be open to adjustments that help improve feasibility? No, it turned out Wednesday during an asylum debate. “The laws are good,” Faber repeated several times in response to questions from the opposition. “If I wanted to give the laws a different shape, I would have already done that.”
Her adamant attitude again aroused irritation from the opposition MPs, who blamed not to want to listen to emergency cries from implementing organizations such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) and the Judiciary. There is fear More complicated and longer asylum procedures. “The minister is not a single ruler, so they don’t let them behave that way,” warned Anne-Marijke Podt (D66).
The PVV is consciously busy dropping the cabinet on asylum
Last Friday, the Council of Ministers approved the ‘Asylum Measures Act’ and the two -status system bill, after Faber had decided to take virtually nothing of advice to send only an improved version of its laws to the Chamber. The explanation of the laws here and there is supplemented with more information. Last month, the Council of State stated in a compelling and critical advice that the laws are carelessly prepared, and that the assumed effect (much fewer asylum applications) should not be overestimated.
Decisive role
All criticism and emergency cries still do not seem to bother the asylum minister. She maintains that her laws are ‘good’. CDA leader Henri Bontenbal thinks very differently about that. If Faber actually wants to make a success of her asylum laws, he told her on Wednesday, then she cannot only lean on “coalition partners who easily nod yes”. Then she must also get parties such as the CDA and the SGP, because they can play a decisive role in the Senate, where the coalition has no majority.
And so she will have to open herself to change proposals from the House of Representatives, since only he has the right to amendment. Faber made the accusation that she does not take the outside world and the room seriously down. She dismissed criticism from the implementing services as ‘uncertainties’ that belong to a ‘fundamental change’ of the asylum system. “But I also take my own opinion seriously.”
Faber hardly received any support from the coalition parties. NSC member Diederik Boomsma complimented her on freeing 115 million euros for the IND and the judiciary, but also noted that his party wants effective laws. What NSC is critical of, he did not want to reveal. The VVD said it would support the laws, but that support will be “certainly not” without conditions. “We are also for a neat law treatment,” said MP Queeny Rajkowski.
Effective
Right -wing opposition parties are also proponents of a stricter asylum policy, but they are a lot more sensitive to the advice given to Faber in recent months. Stricter laws must also be effective is their message. Bontenbal suspects that the minister makes “a game” of the law treatment. “You want to get the room and blame us, but I don’t let it be squeaked through.” He already warned that it is only Faber’s fault if the asylum laws are not accepted. According to him, he renounces her task from the start to “make good legislation.”
It was not clear what strategy Faber had to get critical, but not unwilling opposition parties on board. “I don’t see why I can’t get a majority,” said the minister. That comment worked on the laughing muscles of MPs. “Get the bananas out of your ears,” said MP Kati Piri (GroenLinks-Pvda). She told the minister that the “right -wing cabinet ever” – which has found each other especially on migration – “heading on a wall.”
The only strategy that Piri could see, she said, was that the PVV “is consciously busy dropping the cabinet on asylum.” “To then blame the CDA and the SGP.” The minister did not comment on that.
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