Hello and welcome to this live blog. Here we keep you informed all day about the most important political debate of the year.
5 minutes ago
Bikker against Wilders: “Let’s guard religious freedom” after Wilders holds an argument against Islam, CU leader Bikker steps forward. In contrast to the PVV leader, it is not a danger to the Netherlands, unlike the PVV leader. On the contrary, she is worried that fewer and fewer people are rooted in a belief, and especially in the Christian faith.
“Let us start to maintain religious freedom. And no religions go bashen,” she says in the direction of Wilders. She does not want to go to a situation such as “in the Middle East where you as a Christian can’t go free on the street”.
13 minutes ago
Wilders provoked to look wider than just asylum seekers Wilders reads a whole list with places where according to the PVV leader AZCs are. That number of “hundreds of AZCs” has grown because the Spreading Act has not been withdrawn, he believes. Currently, COA has 314 reception locations and there are still reception locations at municipalities themselves. Last year the COA had 304 reception locations.
That list gives him interruptions of Timmermans and Jetten, who are trying to provoke the PVV player to give his opinion about more than just asylum seekers. According to Timmermans, Wilders only talks about this to “deduce from the fact that he has not delivered anything” and the PVV player gives “a false image of our country”. For example, he points out Wilders that there are 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). According to the D66 member, Wilders is screaming for “90 percent”, but when he is asked about safety in Ukraine, Jetten gets “whispering”.
32 minutes ago
Van Hijum (NSC) and Bontenbal (CDA) drink a cup of coffee behind the scenes.
44 minutes ago
Dennis Bergkamp gets a small roll in the debate Somehow Dennis Bergkamp has crept into the debate. Timmermans started with that when he started that he and Wilders came to the Chamber for the first time in 1998. “In that year, Bergkamp scored that nice goal against Argentina,” says Timmermans.
Moments later, Volt leader Dassen says that it might be time for new politics. “In 1998 I was only a little boy,” he tells the PVV leader. “You are still that,” Wilders immediately recalls. Laughter can be heard in the room. Chamber chairman Bosma suddenly mixes in the conversation. “To stay in football terms: this was a buyer.”
Wilders starts to laugh and takes a few steps from the pulpit. It is one of the few jolly moments in the so far sharp debate.
45 minutes ago
Wilders denies that PVV is relatively often absent from Debates Volt leader Laurens Dassen wonders how Wilders can maintain that he has not had a share in the “political chaos” and points out that, among other things, the PVV “is never present with important debates”. Complaints about the absence of PVV people (who have 37 seats in the Chamber) also came from other opposition parties earlier. In addition, NOS and RTL, among others, concluded last summer on the basis of requested figures that PVV was relatively often absent compared to parties with fewer seats.
Wilders denies that and reads other figures requested by him. According to him, the figures are different because he does not count a continuation of a commission debate in which MPs can submit motions. But whether the presence of PVV is so in proportion to parties with fewer MPs, the PVV does not comment on that.
58 minutes ago
Wilders would also have liked to keep the Zuyderland completely open, SP leader Dijk also tells Wilders that the PVV ministers in healthcare have done nothing. Such as keeping the Zuyderland Hospital in Heerlen fully open. Or why he did not adjust some taxes for the rich.
Wilders replies that some things just don’t always work. The Zuyderland Hospital would have preferred the PVV to have kept completely open, Wilders admits. In addition, he is not even even with many SP points. Such as the consideration of the inheritance tax.
1 hour ago
Jetten points out Wilders that he was the buttons, Rob Jetten (D66) also points out Wilders that he could have taken responsibility as a coalition party. He repeats Wilders’ words that “the Netherlands would be on the edge of national suicide”. “Quite texts from the man who said a year ago that the sun would shine again in the Netherlands,” says Jetten. “In the year that the sun would shine again, everything went wrong”, but it was Wilders who was on the buttons, the D66 leader emphasizes.
Wilders repeats that he has been opposed by other parties. “If agreements have been made and we are being opposed, then say ‘we will look at it, but I will go to the voter again’.”
1 hour ago
Wilders believes that he has been opposed in the Coalition Wilders and Timmermans are now very fierce against each other. The GL-PVDA leader reproaches Wilders for the chance to make policy when he stepped into the cabinet, but that failed. “You didn’t do anything zero Nada.”
But Wilders thinks he is “opposed” in the coalition. In addition, he mainly points to NSC. For example, he was not a prime minister and no emergency legislation was used to take far -reaching asylum measures. PVV minister Faber was responsible for that emergency legislation, but she found no legal substantiation for that.
1 hour ago
Missionary Prime Minister Schoof is sitting with all his ministers in box K. Beside him, the two remaining Deputy Prime Ministers of VVD (Sophie Hermans) and BBB (Mona Keijzer) are sitting.
1 hour ago
Wilders: ‘I learned from the PvdA’ Wilders responds with a noticeable incident from the past. In 2012, PvdA member Samsom negotiated with VVD leader Rutte for a cabinet. That cabinet remained sitting and made important reforms, but the voter mercilessly punished the PvdA because they were painful measures for the party. “I learned from the PvdA,” says Wilders about that. “The voter saw that the PvdA was fooled.” That is why he now got out of the cabinet because he thinks he can no longer give his voters what he has promised.
Timmermans cites the woman from the previous campaign, which Wilders said that she “can’t wait” to abolish the Eigern risk in healthcare. That was an important moment, the PVV started to rise in the polls and became the largest party. In the meantime, nothing has happened to the deductible. “That lady couldn’t wait? She can wait another ten years to you. You don’t care,” Timmermans told Wilders.
1 hour ago
Timmermans about Wilders: ‘You are a runaway’ GL-PVDA leader Frans Timmermans blames Wilders that he “promises heaven”, but at the end of the ride does not blame others and blames others. “Again by blaming NSC.”
“You are a runaway,” says Timmermans. “The country has been standing still for years and the trust in politics has plummeted. That is because of the PVV, as the largest party in the Chamber.”
1 hour ago
Much is stroping on the benches by MPs and that also stands out for Bosma Chamber President. “You are free to roll, but very often I get many emails from people who are annoyed by it,” he tells the room.
It doesn’t make a big impression, because the groups of GL-PvdA and PVV continue to clap to support their leaders.
1 hour ago
Van Baarle clashes with Wilders about Baarle’s language use asks Wilders if he realizes that “with his words he ensures that Dutch mosques, refugees, women with a headscarf, are harassed in this country and are unsafe?”. He has a card with him that have received several Dutch mosques, which contains a text -contaminated text containing that “Islam is no better than Nazism”.
“I don’t quit anywhere,” Wilders was’ answer that. Yet he does distance himself from “intimidating and threatening anyone, including to mosques”. “But I keep naming the truth here,” says the PVV player.
1 hour ago
Van Hijum: Wilders had the chance of strict asylum policy “Everyone thinks we should stop the inflow and the criminal rig must leave the country”, Wilders continues. According to him, immigrants are over -represented in sexual crimes and assaults. The PVV wants a strict asylum policy after the elections.
That could have been there before the PVV left the cabinet, NSC leader Eddy van Hijum Wilders is ahead. “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 Efteling,” says Van Hijum.
1 hour ago
Wilders: ‘We lose our country’ PVV leader Geert Wilders kicks off. He does not start with his written text, but with an email he received this morning from a 28-year-old woman. She was mistreated during her work on a garbage truck, she writes. Because they were Moroccans according to the Mailer, it is typically “the Netherlands of today”.
“Not integrating by non-Western immigrants makes our country more unsafe.” Wilders often reads emails in the plenary debate hall, often with this meaning. “We lose our country,” he says.
1 hour ago
It was surprisingly enough, but after a few minutes, DENK leader Stephan Van Baarle comes to the microphone. The rest of the room does not seem to want to make the debate with Wilders.
1 hour ago
Wilders will be the first to speak. It is always interesting to see who will interrupt him first. It is often urgent with the microphone.
1 hour ago
Chamber chairman Martin Bosma has opened the meeting. He immediately makes a proposal to limit the number of interruptions per MP. With that he wants to prevent the debate from only ending in the night. Last year the first day lasted until 1.30 a.m. and the second day until 2.30 a.m., he indicates.
After his proposal, GL-PVDA leader Frans Timmermans and D66 leader Rob Jetten are immediately forward. They do not want to honor a maximum and “tradition”. The two are supported by many other MPs and there is therefore no majority for the plan.
2 hours ago
The plenary room is full. The so -called course K will soon be all ministers of the outgoing cabinet. They will only listen and do not participate in the debate themselves. Outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof speaks tomorrow on behalf of his cabinet.
2 hours ago
The debate can start any time. The party leaders of all parties are on the speaker list. PVV leader Geert Wilders will start the rush.
2 hours ago
Outside a row of visitors is waiting at the entrance. It is always busy on the public gallery in this annual debate.
Good day and welcome to this live blog. Here we will keep you informed through the day about the most important political debate of the year.
5 minutes ago
Bikker Against Wilders: ‘Let’s Guard Religious Freedom’ After Wilders Makes An Argument Against Islam, Cu Leader Bikker Steps Forward. Unlike the PVV Leader, she does not think Islam is a danger to the Netherlands. She is concerned that ferwer and ferwer people are rooted in a religion, eSpeciate the Christian Faith.
“Let’s Enforce Religious Freedom Terrible Well Now. And not Bash Religions,” She says to Wilders. She does not want a situation like “in the middle East where you cannot walk freely on the street as a Christian.”
13 minutes ago
Wilders Provoked to Look Beyond Asylum Seekers Wilders Reads Out A Whole List Of Places Where, Accordination to the PVV Leader, Asylum CENTERS ARE LOCATED. That number or “hundreds of asylum centers” has grown because the distribution law has not leg withdrawn, he believes. Currently, The Coa HAS 314 Reception Locations and there are also reception locations at the Municipalities Themselves. Last year, The Coa had 304 reception locations.
That list prompts 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 this to “Distract from the Fact that he has delivered nothing” and thus gives the pvv member “a false image of our country”. He pointss out to Wilders, for example, that there are also many nuissances and abuses surrounding labor migrants.
Jetten uses it as a bridge to talk about the safety of ukraine (and the people who fled that country). Accordance to the D66 Member, Wilders is “90 percent shouting”, but when he is asked about the security in ukraine, jetten gets a “whispering” Answer.
32 minutes ago
Van Hijum (NSC) and Bontenbal (CDA) are having a cup of coffee behind the scenes.
44 minutes ago
Dennis Bergkamp Gets A Small Role in the Debate Somehow Dennis Bergkamp Has Crept Into The Debate. Timmermans started when he pointed out that and Wilders first came to parliament in 1998. “In that year Bergkamp Made That Beautiful Goal Against Argentina,” Says Timmermans.
A Little later, Volt Leader Dassen Says That Perhaps It is Time for New Politics. “In 1998 I was Just a Little Boy,” He says to the PVV Leader. “You still are,” Wilders Imediately Shouts Back. Laughter Can Be Heard in the Room. Chamber President Bosma Suddenly Intervenes in The Conversation. “To stay in Football Terms: This was an easy header.”
Wilders Starts Laughing and Takes a Few Steps Away from the Lectern. It is one of the few Jovial Moments in the Otherwise Fierce Debate.
45 minutes ago
Wilders Denies That PVV is relatively or absent from Debates Volt Laurens Dassen Wonders 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 is “cusordanting. Complaints About Absence of PVV Members (Who Have 37 Seats in the House) also came from Other opposition Parties Earlier. In Addition, NOS and RTL Concluded Last Summer on the Basis of Requested Figures that PVV was relatively or absent comparted to parties with FEWER SEATS.
Wilders Denies That And Reads Out Other Figures He Requested. Accordance to him, The Figures are Different because he does not count two-minute debates, a continuation of a committee debate in which Members can submit motions. But Whether the Presence of PVV is in Proportion to Parties with Fewer Members, The PVV Member does not go into that.
58 minutes ago
Wilders would also have preferred to keep Zuyderland fully open sp leader dike also reminds Wilders that the PVV ministers in Healthcare Have Done Nothing. Such as Keeping the Zuyderland Hospital in Heerlenof open. Or why he has not adjusted some taxes for the richer people.
Wilders replies 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 Inheritance Tax.
1 hour ago
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 Partner. 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 resisted by other parties. “If Agreements have leg made and we are resisted, then we say ‘We’ll see, but I’m going to the voters again’.”
1 hour ago
Wilders Believes He was resisted in the Coalition Wilders and Timmermans Are Now Very Fierce Against Each Other. The GL-Pvda Leader batteries Wilders of Having had the opportunity to make policy when he joined the cabinet, but that he has failed to do so. “You Have Done Nothing Zero Nada.”
But Wilders Believes he has Been “Resisted” in the Coalition. In Doing So, He Mainly Points to NSC. For Example, he did not Become Prime Minister and No Emergency LegiLation was Used to Take Far-Reaching Asylum Measures. PVV Minister Faber was Responsible for That Emergency Legislation, But She Found No Legal Basic for It.
1 hour ago
Outgoing Prime Minister Schoof is sitting with all his ministers in box K. Next to him the two remoining Deputy Prime Ministers of VVD (Sophie Hermans) and BBB (Mona Keijzer).
1 hour ago
Wilders: ‘I have learned from the pvda’ Wilders Responds with a remarkable incident from the past. In 2012, PvdA Member Samsom Negotiated with VVD Leader Rutte for a Cabinet. That Cabinet Stayed in Place and Imported Important Reforms, But The Voter Punished the PvdA Mercilessly because they were Painful Measures for the Party. “I have learned from the pvda,” Wilders says about that. “The Voter Saw That The PvdA was a making fun of them.” That is Why He Now Left the Cabinet, because he think that can no longer give voters what he has promised.
Timmermans Cites The Woman From The Previous Campaign, About Whom Wilders Said That She “Cannot Wait” to Abolish the Own Risk in Healthcare. That was an important moment, the PVV Started to Rise in the Polls and Any allly the Largest Party. Meanwhile, Nothing Has Happened with the own Risk. “That lady couldn’t wait? As far as you’re group, she can wait another ten years. You don’t care,” Timmermans sayes to Wilders.
1 hour ago
Timmermans About Wilders: ‘You are a Runaway’ GL-PvdA Leader Frans Timmermans batteries Wilders or “Promising Voters Heaven”, but in the end Delivering Nothing and Blaming Others for It. “Also now by blaming nsc.”
“You are a runaway,” Timmermans Says. “The Country Has Been at a standstill for years and confidence in politics has plummeted. That is due to the pvv, as the largest party in the house.”
1 hour ago
There is a lot of drumming on the benches by members of parliament and chamber president Bosma also notices that. “You are free to drum, but very or after a debate I get a lot of emails from people who are annoyed by it,” he says to the chamber.
It does not make much of an impression, because the factions of GL-PvdA and PVV Continue to Clap to Support Their Leaders.
1 hour ago
Van Baarle Clashes with Wilders about Language use from Baarle Asks Wilders if he realizes that “with his words he ensures that Dutch mosques, refugees, women with headcarves are harassed in this country and are unsafe”? He has a card with him that several Dutch mosques have recurred, in which a text smeared with red liquid States that “Islam is no better than Nazism”.
“I’m not stopping anything,” Wilders’ Answer to That. However, he does distance himself from “Intimidating and Threatening Anyone, Including Towards Mosques”. “But I will continuously to name the truth here,” The PVV Member Thinks.
1 hour ago
Van Hijum: Wilders had the Chance for Strict Asylum Policy “Everyone Thinks that we must stop the inflow and the criminal rabble must leave the country,” Wilders Continues. Accordance to him, immigrant hones are overspressed in sexual offenses and abuse. The PVV Wants a Strict Asylum Policy After the Elections.
That could have leg there before the PVV Left the Cabinet, NSC Leader Eddy van Hijum Remind Wilders. “Wilders had The Opportunity 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,” Said van Hijum.
1 hour ago
Wilders: ‘We are Losing Our Country’ PVV Leader Geert Wilders Kicks Off. He does not start with his written text, but with an email he recovered this morning from a 28-year-old woman. She was abused to do work on a garbage truck, she writes. Because the mailer was moroccans, accordance to Wilders, that is Typical of “the Netherlands of Today”.
“The non-integration by non-western immigrants makes our country less safe.” Wilders Often Reads emails in the Plenary Debate Room, or with this tenor. “We are losing our country,” he says.
1 hour ago
Surprisingly, it took a while, but after a few minutes think leade stephan van baarle come to the microphone. The rest of the house does not yet seem fully willing to engage in the debate with Wilders.
1 hour ago
Wilders will be the first to speak. It is always interesting to see who will interrupt him first. It is of a rush to the microphone.
1 hour ago
Chamber President Martin Bosma Has Opened the Meeting. The immediately proposes to limit the number of interruptions per Member of Parliament. With that hey to prevent the debate from ending only at night. Last year, the first day lasted until 1.30 am and the second day until 2.30 am, he indicates.
After His Proposal, GL-PvdA Leader Frans Timmermans and D66 Leader Rob Jetten Imediately Come Forward. They do not want a maximum and want to keep “the tradition” alive. The Two Are Supported by Many Other Members Of Parliament and There is Therefore No Majority for the Plan.
2 hours ago
The Plenary Hall is Filling Up. In the so-called profession K Soon Be All the Ministers of the Outgoing Cabinet. They will only Listen and Will not Participate in the Debate Themselves. Outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof Will Speak on Behalf of his Cabinet Tomorrow.
2 hours ago
The debate can start any moment. The List of Speakers Includes The Party Leaders of All Parties. PVV Leader Geert Wilders Will Kick Off.
2 hours ago
Outside, a row of visitors is Waiting at the Entrance. It is Always Busy in the public gallery at this annual debate.