Timmermans: If a boundary is crossed, you have to stand up
Timmermans Has Taken The Floor. The first responds to the discussion that just took place between Yesilgöz and jetten. “If Religious Freedom is being challenged here, stand up and be counted,” Said the Gl-Pvda Leader. The Wants To Show in That Way That Everyone in The Netherlands Counts.
Timmermans’ Argument Elicits Little Reaction. However, Bontenbal (CDA) Walks to the Microphone. Hey also Remained Seated Duration Wilders’ Contribution, But That Does Not Mean He AGREES With the PVV Leader’s Words, Bontenbal Explains.
“It is a dilemma. Stay seated or speak out. But you can speak out in many ways. Also outside of debates, in what you say and write. Or how you Behave.”
Why Did Yesilgöz Remain Seated Duration Wilders’ Contribution?
Why Did Yesilgöz Remain Seated Duration Wilders’ Contribution This Morning? Jetten does not understand this, Given the PVV Leader’s Tone. “We must not normalize what is not normal,” Says jetten. “I see it as my task to stand up when some preaches hatred for two hours.”
But the VVD member did not interrupt Wilders Once. “I want to debate with people who are willing to take responsibility. With Wilders, you know: Sooner or later he will always run away.”
But Jetten Thinks That is a cop-out. “Politics is also a battle of values,” he says. So if wilders says he stands up for the safety of women or homosexuals, but in practice does not support proposals on this, then you have to say something about it. “It is the task of a politician to stand up and contradict that.”
Yesilgöz Requests Expansion of Burqa Ban
Can an expanded Burqa Ban Be Introduced as Soon as Possible, Yesilgöz Asks The Outgoing Cabinet. She Calls Wearing a Burqa “One of the most visible expressions of conflicting freedoms and not respect our liberal values.” The Wish for a More Comprehensive Burqa Ban is also in the VVD’s Election Program. The party also horses to make it punishable to Force Others to Wear a Burqa.
In The Netherlands, There is Now a Partial Ban on Wearing Face covering Clothing. As a result, some may not wear a burqa in, for example, a hospital, school or train.
Timmermans: ‘Help us Bring Those Children to the Netherlands’
Timmermans also Makes an Appeal to Yesilgoz. “If you have to remove a bullet from a child’s head, you need specialized instruments for that. They don’t have them in the region.” Accordance to Doctors in Gaza, Children are Being Deliberately Shot, Given the Single Gunshot Wounds to the Head or Chest. De Volkskrant wrote about this earlier this week. “Think about it very carefully again,” Timmermans Says to the VVD Leader. “Help US Bring Those Children to the Netherlands.”
VVD Under Fire for Refusing Medical Evacuation of Children from Gaza
Ouwehand of the Pvdd Cannot Believe that yesilgöz does not want to evacuate wounded or sick children from Gaza to the Netherlands to help Them here. The VVD Believes that this can best be done in the region. Ouwehand find this strange, because ukrainian children are Being Helped here after all. “It gives rise to the suspicion that the vvd, under the leadership of yesilgöz, is Defending Netanyahu,” Says Ouwehand. Yesilgöz Maintains that that her party and the cabinet are doing a lot. “We should not pretend that one weighs human suffering differently than the other.”
SP Leader Dijk also Wonders Why these children Cannot Come to the Netherlands. “The Fastest Way to Help These Children is to Vote Them here,” Says Dijk. He already announces that he will bring a motion to a vote. The Previous One on this was Rejected by Only One Vote. “Yesilgöz Says She Understands That People Are Looking To Make A Difference.” But We Cannot Help Hundreds of Children here. “
Dassen on Israel Policy VVD: ‘Credibility overboard’
Volt Leader Dassen Starts About the Situation in Gaza and the Conclusion of a Commission of Inquiry of the United Nations That Israel is Committing Genocide. Yesilgöz Says She has not read the report. “What is the vvd planning to do to prevent us from throwing our credibility on the world stage, completely overboard?” Asks ties. The VVD member does not direct respond to this. Yesilgöz Does Want to Emphasize Something Else.
“The Image That Nothing is Being Done from the Cabinet and the VVD is not correct.” She lists a number of Measures tasks by the VVD. Such as Declaring Two Israeli Ministers As Persona Non Grata. “It is a genocide,” Says ties. “That is the most serious things humanity can commit. Then it is quely a mager list from yesilgöz.” He calls it “shocking” that the vvd is not prepared to “do everything to stop this.”
Yesilgöz does not regret supporting asylum amendment
Yesilgöz does not regret the VVD’s support for the now much-discussion amendment of the PVV, She Says in response to a Question from NSC Member Eddy van Hijum. PVV Came Up With An Amendment to One of the Asylum Laws That would make People Staying Illegally in the Netherlands Punishable. That amendment was adopted, but not all parties seemed to be aware that this also made all assistance to illegal aliens punishable.
“I find it astonishing to hear that Mrs. Yesilgöz has no regrets,” Says van Hijum. After all, The Law had to be amended, Something Yesilgöz calls “A Technical Adjustment.” But that adjustment would not have happened if his party, together with sgp, had not asked for further investigation into the amendment. Without That Adjustment, The Law would not have bone passed by the senate, He Emphasizes.
Parties Try to Get VVD on Board with Migration Plans
Several Parties are trying to get yesilgöz on board with their plans, and that is with with varying degrees of Success. Bontenbal would like to talk about Labor Migration, and Wonders if he can find VVD on his side for a plan of the cda. The Party Wants To Give Municipalities The Space To, If A Company Wants To Establish Itelf In That Municipality, Assess Whether That Work Really Adds Something. Yesilgöz can “absolutely” agree with that.
Jetten Seems to Have Less Success with the VVD with his plan. D66 would like Asylum Seekers to Be Able to Work from Day One. But Yesilgöz Mainly Wants Asylum Seekers to Hear Faster Whether they are allowed to stay here or not. Then the asylum seeers who recurreive a residence permit can also get to work faster.
‘That’s How You Help the Country Into Trouble’
Timmermans Interrupts Yesilgöz for the First Time. He had expected a bit more self-reflection after the vvd was at the helmet of the national government for fifteen years. Accordance to the GL-PVDA Leader, Yesilgöz Wants To Go Back to a Center-Right Cabinet. The VVD itself dropped such a cabinet two years ago. “That’s how you help the country into trouble,” Says Timmermans. Accordance to Him, Employers Are Also Critical of the Policy of Recent Years. “Political Chaos is Disastrous for the Investment Climate,” Business Organization VNO-NCW Announced This Week.
Yesilgöz Says That She Wants To Help Companies. For Example, by not raising taxes, As GL-PvdA Wants. That Mainly Conerns Polluting Companies That Will Receive An Extra Levy in Timmermans’ Plans. Yesilgöz repeats her mantra: “Companies are not the atm of the Netherlands.”
Yesilgöz: ‘Climate Policy Has also Become Security Policy’
Laurens Dassen (Volt) is very concerned about the Cabinet’s Climate Policy. Yesterday, The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) Concluded that the Climate Target for 2030 HAS Become Virtualy Unattainable. New Cabinet Plans to Get Closer To The Legal Target Have Hardly Made A Difference in The Past Year.
“Climate Policy has also Become Security Policy,” Says Yesilgöz, Who Points to a Changing World. The VVD Certainly Still Has Ambitions, But “You Should Not Blindly Rely On Ambitions And Forget Realism,” She Says.
JA21 and VVD Agree on importance of companies
Joost Eerdmans or JA21 Points Out to Yesilgöz That Companies are Increasingly Thinking About Leaving the Netherlands. That is not only due to the last two years, and therefore to the previous cabinet, but also to the ten to fifteen years before that. What does the vvd member think of that?
That is of course a sitter for yesilgöz. The party prides itself on standing up for entrepreneurs and ensuring a good business climate. That now “All Traffic Lights are Red” for Companies, As Employers’ Organization MKB-Nederland Said This Week, is not good.
Like Eerdmans, Yesilgöz is a concerned about this. “We are very close to each other,” The VVD member concludes in the end. It should be clear that this interruption was intended to show that the parties completely agree with each other on this point.
Bontenbal Seeks Cooperation with VVD
CDA Leader Bontenbal is Involved in the Debate for the First Time and is Clearly not Seeking Confrontation with the VVD. The Wants To Tackle the Regulatory Burden Together with Yesilgöz. The outgoing cabinet must inventory which rules are superfluous, so that the upcoming forming parties can get started with that immediately.
As expected, this fits perfectly into yesilgöz’s strategy. She pointss out once again that VVD minister Karremans recently came up with a plan to scrap five hungred rules.
Yesilgöz on Nitrogen Plans: ‘Every Step is One’
Jetten (D66) Wants to Know from Yesilgöz What She Thinks of the Cabinet’s Nitrogen Plans. He pointss out to the vvd leader the great economic damage caused by the nitrogen crisis.
Outgoing Minister of Agriculture Femke Wiersma Came with Her Additional Package Yesterday That Should Reduce Emissions. To Jetten’s Frustration, There Were Few New Plans in IT, While Wiersma Promised This Spring To Come Up With Additional Policy.
“Every step in the right direction is one,” is Yesilgöz’s Answer.
The Chamber Will Soon Be debating Nitrogen Again. There is a good chance that will no longer be a majority for wiersma’s course, now that nsc has also stepped out of the cabinet. The Former Government Party, Like the VVD, had Been Critical of the Lack of Decisiveness. Yet They Remained Patient Until Now.
VVD: Purchasing Power Law Must Financally Help Working People
Yesilgöz is Satisfied with “the solid budget” that is now in place. There is an increase in Purchasing Power for All Income Groups. NSC Leader Eddy van Hijum Jumps in here. Because the VVD has Included A “Purchasing Power Law” in the Election Program, which “Working People Must Improve Their Purchasing Power More More than non-Working People.”
The income gap between people who work and those who do not work is only getting Bigger, Says van Hijum. Why would you want that, hey wonders? And in Addition: non-working people are also people who canot work or are retired. Accordance to Yesilgöz, The Differences are not big at all now. The VVD Member Therefore Believes That Working Does Not Pay Off. “We want to anchor that in the law.”
VVD Leader Yesilgöz Focuses on Responsibility
The Debate Has started again with the contribution of yesilgöz. The VVD Leader Immediately Calls On The Coalition and Opposition to Jointly Bear Responsibility. “We must show that we take our task seriously.”
BBB Leader van der Plas Already had A Similar Argument Yesterday. She called on the opposition not to “riot” now that the outgoing cabinet is only leaning on 32 seats. It is also one of the tasks of the opposition to make it difficult for a cabinet.
VVD and BBB Are The Only Ones Still In The Government.
Five Parties More Often At Debates Than PVV
Before the Lunch Break, Wilders was Attacked by Dassen (Volt) on the Absence of the PVV at Debates. Wilders Denied This, But Figures from the Central Information Point of the House of Representatives Show That Are Five Smaller Parties That Have Been At Plenary Debates More Often.
IT CONCERNS GL-PVDA, NSC, VVD, D66 and BBB. The Letter Two Parties Have Nine and Eight Seats. That is Almost Thirty Less than the PVV HAS.
The PVV is present at 79 percent of the 371 committee debates and at 53 percent of the plenary debates. No Distinction is made in these figures between regular and concluding (two-minute debates), in which members of Parliament can submit motions.
Debate Hardly About Budget Memorandum
The Debate Will Start Again Soon. For the time being, not very surprisingly, it is not about the budget memorandum. That Rarely Happens Duration the General Political Considerations. Just though Those Debates are Scheduled to discuss the Cabinet’s Plans for the Coming Year.
Party Leaders Mainly Use The Debate to Bring Their Party Points to the Attention. After all, there are elections in a few week. For Example, PVV Leader Wilders Mainly Talked About His Asylum Agenda in The Past Two Hours. And why he stepped out of the cabinet. The Interruptions are also Mainly Party Points.
Duration Budget Day Yesterday, there was also Little New Policy. Logical, because the cabinet only consists of VVD and BBB. Those Two Parties Only Have 32 Seats.
Timmermans Tries Again to Get Wilders Behind the Plan to Treat SeriOutly Injured or Sick Children From Gaza In The Netherlands. That proves futile: Wilders Mintains that there are children accordance to PVV can be better helped in the region. Last week, a motion to bring those children to the Netherlands was narrowly rejected.
Stoffer (SGP) Shares Conerns About the Wolf
As -ore Happens at the General Political Considerations, Many Different Subjects Come Up. For Example, SGP Leader Stoffer Wants To Know From Wilders If He Shares His Conerns About The Wolf. The SGP Believes that there is no place for the animal in the Netherlands.
The Outgoing Cabinet is working on the approach to problem Wolves, but the chamber may declare this policy part controversial. That mean that the cabinet is not allowed to continuous with the plans. Stoffer Calls on Wilders Not to Agree, But Wilders does not want to share the position of the PVV Yet.
No Interruptions From Yesilgöz for Wilders
Wilders Has Been Speaking for Almost Two Hours Now. Significantly more than the forty minutes for which he has registered. That is due to the many interruptions that the PVV Leader Receives. Strikingly not from BBB Leader van der Plas and VVD Member Yesilgöz.
That is as special striking for yesilgöz. The VVD Member Accuses Wilders of Walking Out of the Cabinet and Not Wanting to Take Responsibility. “A Vote for Wilders is a Lost Vote,” She said at the party congress.
Since the break, Yesilgoz has Excluded the PVV for a next cabinet. Since then, the debates between Wilders and Yesilgöz have Been Venomous. Incidentally, The Bond Between the Two Party Leaders was also somewhat hostile when they were still together in the cabinet.
Bikker to Wilders: ‘Let’s Guard Religious Freedom’
After Wilders Gives An Argument Against Islam, Cu Leader Bikker Steps Forward. In contrast to the PVV Leader, She does not Consider Islam a Danger to the Netherlands. She is a specific concerned that ferwer and fewer people are rooted in a religion, and eSpecially in the Christian Faith.
“Let’s now Gruesomely and Thoroughly Enforce Religious Freedom. And not Bash Any Religions,” She Says in the Director of Wilders. She does not want to move Towards a Situation Like “in the middle East where you as a Christian Cannot Walk Freely on the Street.”
Wilders Provoked to Look Beyond Just Asylum Seekers
Wilders Reads Out A Whole List With Places Where Accordination To The PVV Leader There Are Asylum Centers. That number or “hundreds of asylum centers” has grown because the spreading law has not leg withdrawn, he believes. Currently, The Coa HAS 314 Reception Locations and there are also reception locations at Municipalities Themselves. Last year, The Coa had 304 reception locations.
That list Elicits Interruptions from Timmermans and Jetten, who try to provoke the PVV Member to give his opinion on more than just asylum seekers. Accordance to Timmermans, Wilders Only speaks about that to “Distract from the Fact that he has delivered nothing” and thus gives the pvv member “a false image of our country.” He points out to Wilders, for example, that there is also a lot of nuisance and abuses around labor migrants.
Jetten uses it as a bridge to talk about the safety of ukraine (and the people who fled from that country). Accordance to the D66 Member, Wilders is “Shouting 90 percent,” But when he is asked about the safety in Ukraine, jetten gets “whispering” Answers.
Dennis Bergkamp Gets A Small Role in the Debate
In One Way or Another, Dennis Bergkamp Has Crept Into The Debate. Timmermans started that when he pointed out that and Wilders first came to the chamber in 1998. “In that year, Bergkamp Made That Beautiful goal Against Argentina,” Says Timmermans.
A little later, Volt Leader Dassen Says That It May Be Time for New Politics. “In 1998 I was Just a Little Boy,” He says to the PVV Leader. “You still are,” Wilders Directly Shouts Back. Laughter Can Be Heard in the Room. Chamber President Bosma Suddenly Intervenes in The Conversation. “To stay in Football Terms: This was a sitter.”
Wilders Starts Laughing and Takes a Few Steps Away from the Lectern. It is one of the few Jolly Moments in the Until Now Fierce Debate.
Wilders Denies That PVV is relatively or absent at Debates
Volt Leader Laurens Dassen Wonders How Wilders Can Mintain that he has not had a share in the “Political Chaos” and Points Out, Among Other Things, That the PVV According to Him “Is never present at Important Debates.” Complaints About Absence of PVV Members (Who Have 37 Seats in The Chamber) also Came Earlier from Other Opposition Parties. MoreOover, Among Others NOS and RTL Concluded Last Summer on the Basis of Requested Figures that PVV in Compararyon with Parties with Ferwer Seats was relatively or absent.
Wilders Denies That And Reads Other Figures That He Requed. Accordance to him, The Figures are Different because he does not count two-minute debates, a continuation of a committee debate in which members of parliament can submit motions. But Whether the Presence of PVV is so in Proportion with Parties with Fewer Members of Parliament, The PVV Member does not respond to that.
Wilders also had preferred to keep the zuyderland fully open
SP Leader Dijk also Remind Wilders That The PVV Ministers in Healthcare Have Done Nothing. Such as full -kept the Zuyderland Hospital in Heerlen open. Or why he has not adjusted some taxes for the richer people.
Wilders Answers that some things simply do not always work out. The PVV would also have preferred to keep the Zuyderland Hospital Fully Open, Wilders Admits. Hey also disagrees with many sp points. Such as Significantly Increasing the Inheritance Tax.
Jetten Points Out To Wilders That He was in Charge
Rob Jetten (D66) also points out to Wilders That He Could Have Tasks Responsibility as a Coalition Party. He repeats Wilders’ Words that “The Netherlands would be on the brink of national suicide.” “QUITE TEXTS from the man who said a year ago that the sun would be shine again in the Netherlands,” Jetten Thinks. “In The Year that the Sun would Shine Again, Apparently Everything Went Wrong,” But It Was Wilders Who Was in Charge, The D66 Leader Emphasizes.
Wilders repeats that he has leg counteracted by other parties. “If Agreements are made and we are counteracted, then we say ‘We’ll see it but I’ll go to the voter again’.”
Wilders Believes That Has Been Counteracted in the Coalition
Wilders and Timmermans Are Now Very Fierce Against Each Other. The GL-PvdA Leader Batteries Wilders of Having the Opportunity to Make Policy When He Stepped Into The Cabinet, But That Has Failed To Do So. “You have done nothing, zero, nada.”
But Wilders Believes that has bone “counteracted” in the coalition. Hey Mainly Points to NSC. For example, he was not made prime minister and no emergency legislation was used to be able to take far-streaking asylum measures. PVV Minister Faber was Responsible for That Emergency Legislation, But She Did Not Find a Legal Basic for It.
Wilders: ‘I have learned from the pvda’
Wilders Reacts with a remarkable incident from the past. In 2012, PvdA Member Samsom Negotiated with VVD Leader Rutte for a Cabinet. That cabinet remained in place and implemented important reforms, but the voter punished the pvda mercilessly because they were painful measures for the party. “I have learned from the pvda,” Says Wilders about that. “The Voter Saw That The PvdA was Kidding them.” That is why he stepped out of the cabinet now, because hey that can no longer give voters what he has promised.
Timmermans MENTIONS THE WOMAN FROM THE PREVIIUS CAMPAIGN, About Whom Wilders Said That She “Cannot Wait” to Abolish the Personal Risk in Healthcare. That was an important moment, the PVV Started to Rise in the Polls and Any allly the Largest Party. In The Meantime, Nothing Has Happened with the Personal Risk. “That woman could not wait?
Timmermans About Wilders: ‘You are a runaway’
GL-PVDA Leader Frans Timmermans batteries Wilders or “Promising the Voters Heaven”, But at the End of the Day Delivering Nothing and Blaming Others for It. “Again now by blaming nsc.”
“You are a runaway,” Says Timmermans. “The Country Has Been Standing Still for Years and Confidence in Politics has plummeted. That is due to the pvv, as the largest party in the chamber.”
Van Baarle Clashes with Wilders about Language Use
Van Baarle Asks Wilders if he realizes that “with his words he ensures that Dutch mosques, refugees, women with a headcarf, are harassed in this country and are unsafe?” He has a card with him that several Dutch mosques have received, in which there is a text smeared with red liquid in which it is said that “Islam is no hair better than Nazism.”
“I’m not stopping anywhere,” was Wilders’ Answer to that. Yet he does distance himself from “Intimidating and Threatening Anyone, also Towards Mosques.” “But I will continuously to name the truth here,” The PVV Member Thinks.
Van Hijum: Wilders had the Chance for Strict Asylum Policy
“Everyone think that we must stop the inflow and get the criminal rabble out of the country,” Wilders Continues. Accordance to him, non-western immigranthones are overspressed in sexual crimes and abuse. The PVV Wants a Strict Asylum Policy After the Elections.
That could already have leg before the PVV Left the Cabinet, NSC Leader Eddy van Hijum Remind Wilders. “Wilders had the Chance to Turn the Strictest Asylum Policy Ever Into Policy. Only the PVV Asylum Minister was Concerned about Ribbons and Outings for Asylum Seekers to the Efteling,” Says van Hijum.
Wilders: ‘We are Losing Our Country’
PVV Leader Geert Wilders Kicks Off. He does not start with his written text, but with an email that he recovered this morning from a 28-year-old woman. She was abused to do work on a garbage truck, she writes. Because accordance to the mailer they were moroccans, that is accordance to Wilders Typical “The Netherlands of Now”.
“The non-integration by non-western immigrants makes our country more unsafe.” Wilders Often Reads emails in the Plenary Debate Hall, or with this tenor. “We are losing our country,” he says.