The Expectation was that would be intense duration the most important debate of the year. But Party Leaders Kept Their Powder Dry and Probed on Topics Such Asylum and the Economy. PVV Leader Geert Wilders was Silent After His Contribution.
The General Political Reflections Begen With Some Tumult. As is usually the case every year when Wilders is the first to speak. The PVV Leader was Harsh and Came Up With Bloody Stories to Reinforce His Fear That Neighborhoods And Cities Are Being Islamized.
“Do we immediately introduction a Total Asylum stop? Do we deport criminals if possible? Or do we constantly with this national suicide?” Wilders Wondeed Aloud. “Those are QUITE TEXTS,” Said D66 Leader Rob Jetten. “From the same man who a year ago Said: The Sun Will Shine Again in the Netherlands.”
Wilders Has Physically and Mentally distanced himself from the Cabinet as Quickly as Possible. This Allowed Him to Fulminate In His Characteristic Way Against the National Government, or who his party was a part for a year and a half.
Others Tried to Point Out Wilders’ Responsibility as Leader of the Largest Party. GL-PVDA Leader Frans Timmermans Listed What the PVV Leader, in His Eyes, Has Done with his position of power: “Nothing, Zero, Nada.” Jetten Warned Voters in Advance for October 29: “Why would people in the voting booth just trust Wilders anymore? He does notify with the mandate he receivers from Those Voters.”
There was Letterly a Heated Debate About Taking Responsibility, Freedom of Religion, and Some Personal Jibes. For Those Who Regularly Watch Debates with Wilders, This is Nothing New.
‘Leave Asylum to the Reasonable Parties’
It was as special striking this time what did not happen. Party Leaders Henri Bontenbal (CDA) and Dilan Yesilgöz (VVD) Remained Seated Duration the Two Hours That Wilders was at the Lectern.
Bontenbal Heard Nothing Constructive to Debate About. But that Doessn’t Mean He Thinks Everything Wilders Says is Okay, he emphasized later. “We should leave asylum migration to the reasonable parties in this house. Not to the flanks.” Yesilgöz Said She Only Wants To Debate With People Who Take Responsibility. “With Wilders you know: Sooner or later he will always run away.”
Althegh Wilders Dominated the Debate in the First Hours, This was a new Dynamic Around the PVV Leader. Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte Once Made a Similar Attempt. “If Pieces of Red Meat Are Thrown Into the Arena, I Think It is Unwise to All Immediately Jump On It,” He said in 2012 about a provocative action by Wilders.
It will be difficult on asylum between gl-pvda and cda
In The Continuation of the Debate, IT was over for the PVV Member. With the speakers after that, including yesilgöz and carmermans, he remained quietly seated. Just thought it was much about ‘His’ subject of asylum and migration.
The Debate Became eSpeciate Interesting When Font Bal Sought Room with Timmermans for National Asylum Measures. The Two Do Find Each Other at the European Level. There is a Package of Measures That Member States Must Implement Next Year. But what does gl-pvda want to add that nationally?
Other Parties in the Chamber Are, For Example, in Favor of a two-status System, But Timmermans calls Such a National Measure “Symbolic Politics.”
At that point, it could be complicated between the cda and gl-pvda if they are in a position to form a coalition together after the elections. For Yesilgöz it is clear: Timmermans is an impossible partner for the vvd on this issue.
Bontenbal: Meet Nato Standard with Higher Vat
Also in the area of the economy – and more specifically the business community – there was Probing. JA21 and VVD quickly agreed that the business climate needs to be improved, because otherwise companies Threaten to Leave. No Tax Increases Therefore.
They think differently about that at GL-PvdA. Companies that pollute the most should also pay more for that. Tax Increases Therefore. So here again: The VVD and GL-Pvda are diametrically opposed to each other.
Bontenbal Still had to explain how hey to raise the extra defense Billions to meet the Increased Nato Standard. In The CDA Election Program, that is called an Apparently Innocent “Freedom Contribution”, but that is in normal language a “limited extra tax”, Bontenbal Acknowled. “I’m not going to make it prettier than it is.”
It Remains Unclear How the CDA Wants To Pay For That. Partly that happens via a highher barrel. More Exensive Groceries Therefore. The business community must also contribute to this, Bontenbal Believes.
That there are no more details, The CDA Member was heavy criticized for. Timmermans, Yesilgöz, Mirjam Bikker (CU) and Chris Stoffer (SGP) Were Disappointed that they did not get more clarity. That clarity when the calculation of the central planning agency is there on October 10, Bontenbal Promised.
Normally, On the Second Day of the General Political Reflections, The Cabinet Must, Through Caretaker Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Give Answers to the Questions Asked From the Chamber.
But this time there Were Hardly Any Questions. In Addition, IT, Hardly Political Worthwhile To Question a Non-Partisan Prime Minister WHO is not Eligible for Election and Relies on a Cabinet with Only 32 Seats in the Chamber.
Thus, it was decided to let the debate last Until Midnight at Most. The Remaining Speakers Will Be On The Floor on Thorsday. They can Easily Snatch That Time From Schoof. That too was characteristic of this debate.