The outgoing cabinet is allowed by the House of Representatives to continue with the plans in the field of asylum and migration. Next week, for example, there will be a debate about the asylum emergency measures law of the resigned PVV minister Marjolein Faber.
After the fall of a cabinet, the question is always which subjects a caretaker cabinet is still allowed to work on and which plans have to wait for a new cabinet. On Thursday, the special asylum committee of the House of Representatives debated all plans for asylum and migration.
That committee has given the green light for all plans that had already been set in motion before the cabinet fell. Think of the strict asylum laws that Faber had submitted or a law that should abolish the penalty payments at the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).
Only GL-PvdA, DENK and SP wanted to pause certain laws and letters. But those calls did not get a majority.
It is no surprise that the outgoing cabinet is allowed to continue with the asylum plans. During a debate about the fall of the cabinet, a majority of the House of Representatives had already indicated that they wanted to continue with at least Faber’s asylum laws. The PVV, which stepped out of the coalition out of dissatisfaction with the asylum policy, also wanted that.
House of Representatives deals with asylum laws before the summer recess
The approval does not mean that all parties are satisfied with the plans. There still needs to be a debate about it. The House wants to debate Faber’s strict asylum laws as soon as possible. On Tuesday, a motion was adopted to deal with the laws before the summer recess, which starts on Friday, July 4.
The debate about the asylum emergency measures law is next week Thursday. It is not yet known when the debate about the other law (the so-called two-status system) will be scheduled.
Former Minister Faber must leave the debates to her successors. There was still much to do about who those would be. VVD, NSC and BBB all three were vying for the ministerial post. Ultimately, the parties decided to divide the dossier into three.
This week, the House of Representatives is also debating in all committees about declaring all other subjects that the cabinet was working on as controversial. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote again in its entirety only on the plans that have been declared controversial.
The special committees can also declare new subjects controversial in the coming period. The list of subjects that the outgoing cabinet is allowed to work on may therefore still change.