NSC demands from outgoing asylum David van Weel (VVD) that he still makes a hard commitment to the House of Representatives on Thursday evening that people who help illegal immigrants will not become punishable. If that clarity does not come, NSC cannot vote for the ‘Asylum Measures Act’ and that law will die in the Lower House. That said NSC party leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven on Thursday after hours of consultation within her group.
A crisis atmosphere has been hanging in the room all day because NSC cannot live with an adopted amendment from the PVV. This not only criminalizes illegality, but also people who help illegal immigrants, for example through volunteering. NSC and also the SGP, which is in principle for the Asylum Act, wanted clarity about this from the outgoing cabinet on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Minister Van Weel wrote a note in which he had to admit that people who help illegal immigrants can be punishable. The Minister says the Public Prosecution Service can only ask these groups not to maintain these groups with priority.
For NSC that is completely insufficient, Van Vroonhoven showed. She spoke of a “flut letter” by Van Weel and now demands that the minister comes for the votes, who is planned for tonight, with a new letter in which “black and white” must stand that people who help illegal immigrants will not be tackled or prosecuted. The NSC party leader emphasizes that her party still “incredibly wants the law to go through”, but she believes that Minister Van Weel should give her group more “comfort” than is now.
Van Vroonhoven also said, just like SGP party leader Chris Stoffer earlier, that the two groups have explored some “options” to adjust the scope of the law. It is unclear which options the parties are thinking, because the conscious PVV amendment is already adopted and therefore the law of the law may have been a new amendment. Promised that the Senate sends the law back to the cabinet and makes a short story, but then the House of Representatives will also have to approve those adjustments.
The question is, whatever compromise, whether a weakening of the criminalization of illegality is acceptable for PVV leader Geert Wilders. If the PVV still votes against, the majority is also gone. He wrote Thursday evening on X That the situation surrounding the asylum laws is “to go crazy”. “Opposing, frustrating, slowing down, NSC, CDA and even SGP with questions, requirements, emergency advice from the stainless steel. This is precisely why the cabinet fell. Amateurs.”
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