This ruling centre-right coalition Holland dropped this Friday due to differences over asylum system reformAccording to local media, after Prime Minister Mark Rutte asked his associates to restrict reunification of direct relatives of war refugees.
The four parties that made up the government had been at odds for months. How to manage the influx refugeesBut the situation got tense when liberal Rutte sat down on Wednesday. limit family members of reunified refugees to 200 per month and a two-year waiting period before traveling to the Netherlands. This proposal was considered unfeasible by the progressive D66, but above all by the Christian Union (CU), a partner that sees respect for family as a red line.
It is unclear exactly what will happen next. and the government leadership has yet to emerge for a statement, but options considered include promptly advancing the election or attempting to continue in a minority Executive if any of the four parties wants to go with Rutte.
The Netherlands has been trying for months to reach an agreement on how to reform the asylum system, but the suspension of the right to reunite parents, children and partners was already an unacceptable issue for D66 and CU in the 2021 coalition negotiations, and Rutte is back. Put the same point on the table this week. Rutte’s wanted Distinguish between personally and permanently threatened refugees (on grounds of political, religious or sexual orientation) and those who fled their country due to a “temporary” armed conflict and are presumed to have marched when the war in their country is over.
less than two years of government
This latter group will have a harder time reuniting their families because the VVD in Rutte wants to allow only 200 family members per month to be reunited per refugee, and there will be a two-year waiting period before they can travel to the Netherlands. This coalition came to the Government on 10 January 2022, that is He reigned only one year and 178 days..
It is possible Third cabinet led by Rutte, which did not reach the end of the legislature and can be seen as a prisoner election progressIt has already happened in 2012 in its government with the far-right Geert Wilders, and in 2021 in coalition with the parties it has so far been in power. Rutte has finished just one of the four legislatures he has led since first coming to government in 2010, and was in a coalition with the social democratic PvdA between 2012 and 2017.