Good morning and welcome to our live blog! Here we will keep you informed of the debate in the house of representatives about the political situation that has aris after NSC’s departure from the caretaker cabinet.
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Bontenbal: ‘The Netherlands Needs a Stable Cabinet’ CDA Leader Bontenbal Wantsbal Wantsbal WHETER Caretaker Prime Minister Schoof Has Considered Keeping the Resignation of the NSC Ministers Under Consideration. This would have allowed more time to think about how to deal with this unprecedented political situation.
The CDA Leader also Wonders How the Cabinet Will Seek Support for Next Year’s Budget. The Remoining Coalition of VVD and BBB Only HAS 32 of the Required 76 Seats. “The Netherlands must have a stable cabinet as soon as possible,” Says Bontenbal. He calls on the parties to conduct a substantive and civil campaign.
SGP Wants Experienced Administrators in New Caretaker Cabinet “What Now?”, Is also a Question That SGP Leader Chris Stoffer Raises. If it is up to his party, the house will adopt a constructive attitude Towards the thinned-out cabinet in the coming period.
Stoffer also has an idea about how the vacant positions in the cabinet should be filled: they should be people “who have proven themelves in public administration”. Political Color is “subordinate” to this as far as the sgp is concerned.
ChristenUnie and D66 Advocate for an Explorer Following D66, ChristenUnie Leader Mirjam Bikker is also a lawying for an explorer. In The Coming Weeks, The Caretaker Cabinet Should Limit Itelf to What is Necessary, Says Bikker. After the elections, if it is up to cu, it should be explored how the caretaker cabinet can continuous until a new cabinet is formed. That is why her party is in favor of an explorer.
Bikker Further Calls NSC’s Departure Not “Courageous, But Misplaced”. “Today we Are Staring at the Remnants of a Crippled Cabinet and the Governability of Our Country is in Danger.”
Esther Ouwehand (Party for the Animals) and Nicolien van Vroonhoven (NSC) Debate the Political Situation That Has Arisen.
JA21 WILDS MORE Attention for Domestic Subjects ‘ Running Away Solves Nothing “, Says Ja21 Leader Joost Eerdmans About the Departed Foreign Minister Veldkamp.” It is not in the Country’s interest to have a new political crisis. “
Eerdmans Believes that Lattely “It’s only about Gaza and Israel.” Domestic Themes Such As the Housing Shortage, Immigration and the Fact that Women Feel Unsafe At Night Deserve More Attention from Politicians in His Eyes.
PvdD: ‘The Netherlands is fining a genocide’ pvdd leader Esther Ouwehand Spends a lot of her speaking time on the situation in Gaza and the Role of the Netherlands in this. The Netherlands is Fourth on The List of Investors in Israel, Ouwehand Indicates. “We are finance a genocide.”
She also points to aid to children in Gaza, which the Caretaker Cabinet will not help in the Netherlands, just thought they have asked for it. “We need to hear from this cabinet that they think it will be alright through aid in the region. How many children have bone helped in the meeanime?”, She Asks the Caretaker Cabinet.
Volt hopes for a new cabinet before Christmas “Every minute that we continuously with this is a minute that we don’t spend on Choices for the country,” Says Volt Leader Laurens Dassen. “A minute in which we take noesures against genocide in Gaza.” Dassen “yearns” for the elections, he says. “I want to see a cabinet on the podium before Christmas.”
Cabinet was Already in extra time accordance to NSC NSC Acknowledges that vacancies have arisen in the cabinet due to the departure, but accordance to van vroonhoven it is not true that the country has now Become Ungovernable. “The Cabinet was Already Caretaker, Already was in extra time and already to look for majorities.”
If it is up to van vroonhoven, there must be professional ministers in the new caretaker cabinet. Accordance to NSC, Party Affiliation is “Subordinate to Quality and Responsibility”.
NSC Points to the Coalition Agreement: ‘Action was Necessary’ Now It is the Turn of the Party That Left the Cabinet on Friday: NSC. Group Chairman Nicolien van Vroonhoven Points Out That Agreements from the Coalition Agreement had not leg Complied with for some time, but that thesis now also not seem to Apply to the Gaza Issue. “The Coalition Agreement States:” Where Human Rights and the Rule of Law are seriously Violated, […] The Cabinet Will Speak Out and Take Action. “
The fact that ‘their’ minister Veldkamp did not get that space accordance to nsc meean that the party saw no other option than to step out of the cabinet. “Then we have to draw a line. However Painful that May be.” She now Asks The Cabinet What Actions They Now Going to Take Against Israel.
BBB Mainly Wants to Continue and Will Reject Other Proposals BBB Leader Caroline van der Plas Thinks It is Mainly Time to Look Ahead. “What happened, happened”. Van der Plas Wants To “Get Back to Work Now and Not Wait Until After the Elections”. “BBB is Taking Responsibility for this and we reject all other proposals for this”. With this she refers, among other things, to the proposal from D66 to Ask a Proposer to Appoint a New Cabinet with Experienced Administrators.
When She is asked by Laurens Dassen or Volt about BBB’s Opinion on a National Trade Boycott Against Israel, She Refuses to Respond. “I don’t want to make it a gaza debate”.
SP also does not support a motion of no confidence: ‘Even more chaos and hasle’ SP Leader Dijk is Fed Up. “There Has Been Internal Hassle Since the Formation,” He says about the Manners Between PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB. And specifically to the Departing NSC Ministers: “You have made a mess of it.”
Meanwhile, no problems are solved. “Parents and Children of the Benefits Scandal and Groningen are Waiting.” Measures and Sanctions Against Israel Cannot Be Delayed Either, because People are Dying in Gaza Every Day.
What Now? Dijk Has Thought about it. “The SP HAS Considered Sending All Ministers Home. But what then? Even more chaos? Even more Hassle?” He has looked at the options to bring the elections forward from October 29, so that there might be a cabinet before Christmas. But that is legal impossible.
D66 Comes up with a proposal for a ‘Cabinet of National Unity’ D66 Leader Rob Jetten is Indeed Coming up with his plan announced yesterday to replace the caretaker cabinet with a ‘cabinet of national unity’, as he calls it. The House Must then Appoint An Explorer Who Will Find Out which Experienced Administrators Can Temporarily Take On The National Administration.
SGP Leader Chris Stoffer Wondher It is also Possible to Ask VVD and BBB to Supplement Their Cabinet Team Themselves with People from Outside. Jetten can really follow that suggestion. He does wonder Whether parties Will Say “YES” to Experienced administrators who have a distinctly Different Party Affiliation. “I would like to hear that.”
Discussion in the house about calling the cabinet ‘inhumane’ a discussion arises about the words used in the house. The Third Speaker on The List, Van Baarle, Wonde “How Inhumane A Cabinet” Can Be If It Falls About “Measures to Stop the Genocide”. Those words are reason for chairman bosma to intervene, who calls them “unpleasant”. For GL-Pvda that is again reason to intervene. Timmermans Points Out That Bosma Has Already Corrected by Baarle Twice, While Bosma’s Group Chairman Wilders “Was Allowed to Run Completely Empty” About Asylum Seekers.
Van Baarle Points Out That Feels Limited in His Words by Bosma. “What people think of it, I take note of, and I will continuously to speak out against Israel’s Actions”. “And the Latter is Your Right,” Says Bosma, “But I Said Something about your turning.”
PVV does not support a motion of no confidence the PVV will not support a Possible motion of no confidence, Says Wilders. He will not send the so-called rump cabinet, in which only the vvd and bbb parties are still sitting, home. “We will deal with it in a businesslike and mature way.”
“We support good proposals and not bad ones,” Says Wilders. But he is no longer bound by the previously concluded outline agreement between PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB.
A little later in The Debate, think leader of Baarle Indeed Submits A Motion of No Confidence Against the Cabinet. A vote will be tasks on that after the debate.
Think Leader of Baarle shows photos of deceased Palestinian children
Think Leader Van Baarle Starts About the Telephone Conversation That Wilders Recently Had Israeli Prime Minister Natanyahu. The Wonders How He can support him, while Tens of Thousands of People Have died in Gaza Because of the Attacks by the Israeli Army.
Van Baarle Holds Up Photos of Murdered and Mutilated Children and Babies for Wilders. “Look at them”, he says to Wilders. “Do you have a shred of humanity?”
Chairman of the House Bosma (PVV) Intervenes. “This is not a debate about Gaza,” he says. It must be about the political situation that has arisen after nsc left the cabinet. But Wilders Still Answers: “I Could Have Brought Thirteen Hundred Pictures with Me,” He says, referring to the terrorist Attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
On Behalf of the Caretaker Cabinet, Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Deputy Prime Minister Sophie Hermans (VVD) and Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer (BBB) are present at the debate.
Bikker (CU) Disappined in Wilders Bikker (CU) is Disappointed in Wilders. Democracy also Means Making Concessions and Being Accountable, Says Bikker. Wilders does not do that in her eyes. “That disappoints me.”
Wilders does not think he is response for the current situation. Hey Hopes to Become the Largest Party Again in the Next Elections and is Already Giving a Warning to the Voters. “This is the Last Chance Before It Goes Wrong for Good. And That Chance Is With My Party.”
Bikker, Who is Visible Shaking Her Head ‘No’ At Wilders’ Words, Gives a Disclaimer to Those Same Voters. “Make sure you don’t give trust to people who mess it up.” Bikker Says That There Were Plenty of Opportunities to Take Steps on Asylum and Migration. “I expected more Statesmanship.”
Wilders Blames Cabinet for ‘Chaos’ PVV Leader Geert Wilders Begins with his Contribution that this cabinet is “a chaos”. Wilders Often Begins His Contribution With Thesis Words. Now it Comes Across Somewhat Strange, Because for the past Two years his party has ortes bone part of that chaos. There is Laughter in the Public Gallery.
He now Mainly Blames NSC for a Lot. In His Eyes, that party is to blame for all the political misery. Accordance to him, the PVV was “The Most Constructive Party” of the Old Cabinet. Among other things, because the pvv as the largest party cool up the primeiership and then agree not to introduce the asylum emergency law after all. “The Netherlands is Longing for a New Cabinet. That will be the Wilders 1 Cabinet as far as I am Concerned,” Says Wilders.
GL-Pvda Will ConstructiveVial Look at Cabinet, But Wants Action for Gaza The First Word is for the largest opposition party GL-PvdA. In his speaking text, Frans Timmermans Emphasizes the fear that the country will now come to a standstill. His party will constructively look at the proposals from the cabinet in the coming period.
But, HE WARNS, HIS Party Expects Active Action in the Area of Gaza. “A Minister Has Resigned, so the cabinet will have to take steps on that point. Only then can we support policy.” Genocide cannot be ignored as far as carpenters is a group.
Group Chairmen Take the Floor the Debate Will Start Soon. The Word Will Be Given to All Group Leaders, as Can Be Seen On The List Of Speakers. That is fairly common in debates that deal with thesis child of issues. Every Group Chairman Gets Four Minutes of Speaking Time.
Official it is still recess in the house. Yet the period in which the house does not meet this summer is different than usual. It is more common for the members of the house to be called back to the house for importing matters duration recess, but with today’s debate, the count for this recess is alreamy at three. Previously, The House had to Vote on State Aid for Shipbuilder Damen and There Was a Debate About the Situation in Gaza, which resulted in the Departure of NSC from the Cabinet.
VVD and BBB Have Divided Up the Vacant Positions Themselves, Doubt in the House After The PVV Left the Cabinet in June, The Vacant Positions Were Divided by VVD, BBB and NSC. Now VVD and BBB also because to fill the vacant positions Themselves. The Puzzle for this was Put Together Last Night, Although It is not Yet Known What the Division is and Who the New Ministers and State Secretaries Should Be.
There is Doubt in the House. The New Caretaker Cabinet Will Soon Only Be Able to Fall Back On The 32 Seats of VVD and BBB. Finding majorities for cabinet plans will then be quely complicated.
With the departure of NSC, Another Brick Has Been Removed from the Already Shaky Structure of the Schoof Cabinet. But for the Israel Course, Nothing (Yet) Changes.
House Debates Political Situation After NSC Departure The House of Representatives Will Debate The ‘Political Situation That Has Arisen’ From 10.15 am, as the Departure of NSC from the Cabinet is called in the house agenda.
NSC Minister Caspar Veldkamp (Foreign Affairs) Decided to Resign on Friday After He Could Not Agree on Extra Measures Against Israel with the Caretaker Cabinet. The rest of the NSC Squadron Followed Him.