Rutte keep their spirits up by VVD congress – Reformed Daily

Rutte keep their spirits up by VVD congress – Reformed Daily

VVD leader Mark Rutte Saturday at a congress of his party in Amsterdam tried to keep the spirits up for the regional elections of March 18th. The prime minister is optimistic about the outcome, because he thinks “people see that the VVD has taken responsibility to lift the Netherlands out of the crisis. That the policy step for results begins to worry. And that we need to keep track. “

polls the VVD in substantial loss. For coalition partner PvdA, the prospects are much bleaker. The provincial elections are politically important, because the new States members determine the composition of the Senate. VVD and PvdA have there now no majority and have to rely on support from the opposition.

The VVD therefore pulling out all the stops in the provincial elections to become the largest party. Rutte is convinced that succeeds because most voters will recognize him as the VVD the right agenda to drag Netherlands out of the crisis. But the Liberals have also released a record amount of EUR 1 million to campaign.

Rutte tried his supporters Saturday to enthuse by promising tax cuts. He had said nothing new, because the government has already announced that the tax burden in the forthcoming reform with 3 to 5 billion euros net will fall. When that reform is coming, Rutte had in the middle. He did acknowledge that taxes, as opposed to election promises, the last few years has increased substantially.

Rutte also went into the allegations of Turkey that the Netherlands would discriminate and would be guilty of racism. “The government has no interest in the views of Turkey on our integration,” said the Prime Minister.

The VVD congress Saturday lay down in the additional tax of 642 million euros to be paid by Netherlands to Brussels. A motion to not make money, was rejected by a large majority. Resistance also had little more sense, because the government has already decided to pay before the end of the year.

During the VVD congress was former European Commissioner and former minister Neelie Kroes appointed as an honorary member. She is right in the select company of among others Hans Wiegel, Frits Bolkestein and Gerrit Zalm.