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Dutch Prime Minister Rutte to update king on government collapse
Reuters ^ | 7/7/23

Posted on 07/08/2023 3:16:03 AM PDT by EBH

THE HAGUE, July 8 (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is due to meet King Willem-Alexander on Saturday, to discuss a caretaker administration the day after his centre-right government collapsed following a row on migration policies.

The resignation of the coalition government means parliament will most likely be dissolved and the Dutch will go to the polls in a general election, expected to be held in November.

Rutte, 56, in power since 2010, is already the Netherlands' longest serving prime minister. He told a press conference late on Friday that he'd like to run for a fifth term but would consult with his party before making a final decision.

"If you were to ask me to decide now, the answer is obviously 'yes'," he told journalists, but added "it's also up to the party".

The crisis in Dutch politics came after Rutte's conservative VVD party pushed to limit the flow of asylum seekers to the Netherlands.

Tensions came to a head this week, when Rutte demanded support for a proposal to limit the arrival of children of war refugees who are already in the Netherlands and to make families wait at least two years before they can be reunited.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: immigration; markrutte; netherlands; rutte
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To: SaveFerris
Excellent list. And there could be a lot more with lesser examples. Or greater examples like what happened to Leon Trotsky.

The bottom line is that collaborating with demons never buys peace, it buys only a more opportune time for them to murder. And the lefties never learn.

21 posted on 07/08/2023 5:34:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: EBH
The collapse can't have anything to do with the People's lack of confidence in the government as a consequence of its farm-related decisions (new fertilizer limits and their threat to food production, forced bankruptcies, farm confiscations to be purchased by globalists).

That would be too much of a coincidence, eh?

"Immigration" (as in the former France)? Food production? They're just two fronts in the same, current war.


22 posted on 07/08/2023 6:27:28 AM PDT by rx
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To: EBH

European Union, Paradise


23 posted on 07/08/2023 7:34:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SaveFerris

Obama only carried that book for the photos , he can’t read


24 posted on 07/08/2023 7:35:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SaveFerris
And yet the idiots who couldn't read him for what he is still believed in him

And they still believe in him. I am talking about the self hating Whites. The ones that put him in the White House twice and would have a third, fourth , or fifth time if he had wanted them to. Not the Blacks. Population wise and per cent wise there was not enough Blacks to do anything on their own. Even if they wanted to.

25 posted on 07/08/2023 7:46:36 AM PDT by sport
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To: JudyinCanada

“ I’m a little confused, as I read that this WEF enforcer, Rutte, was wanting stricter immigration, and his counterparts were against that. I hope I got that wrong.”

That’s what I understood as well. 2 of his 4 coalition wanted to flood the country with more ragheads


26 posted on 07/08/2023 7:50:10 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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