Smokescreen keeps Rutte II upright – AD.nl

Smokescreen keeps Rutte II upright – AD.nl

The shards are stuck together, but the glue attempts by the Rutte II take increasingly desperate forms. To vision loss in limiting the VVD, shields the coalition with a shortcut along the Senate. The gedogers not want to cooperate with them.

Duijvestein: own illness reason to voice
Adri Duivesteijn voted against the new Health because of his own experiences with the health care system. The Labour Party senator said in an interview with the newspaper.
Duivesteijn been a time seriously ill. He was told at one hospital he was refractory, but he was able to continue treatment at another hospital. ,, I have experienced how great it is that you will find elsewhere a specialist who says we going to fight, we focus not accept it. That is over as an end to the free choice of doctor. “”
Addition Duivesteijn voted against because the Labour Party has spoken strongly in its election of 2012 against market forces in healthcare. ,, The proposal from the government is completely on the other side of the program. ” According
Duivesteijn there were more than three Labour MPs First against the abolition of t he free choice of doctor. ,, But who finally said, I do not accept the consequence of a crisis, and therefore I am “” That Duivesteijn still voting against, was ,, a matter of principle. ‘.

These are not people who have barking in the row

PvdA Senator Klaas de Vries

Rutte and Schippers together in parliament © anp.

The clang of the VVD after three full days suddenly silenced. Furious were the liberals, when the Labour Party earlier this week the care plans of Health Minister Edith Schippers wegstemde in the Senate. The Labour Party had to quickly regain that senators in a loft. Preferably within 24 hours. Silently was threatened with a cabinet crisis.

It was a foolhardy action. Instead of calming things down, VVD and PvdA rushed at full speed in a cul de sac. Diederik Samson joined days in the Ministry of Social Affairs. Deputy Prime Lodewijk Asscher even went to negotiate an unchristian time at the bedside of the dissident Labour senator Adri Duivesteijn. It did not yield much.

No guarantees
There were no guarantees of three experienced PvdA senators. Everyone in The Hague felt that coming. ,, These are not people who let themselves barking in line, “said PvdA Senator Klaas de Vries. The VVD has to demand its own defeat created by things that could not be delivered. Certainly not by the Labour Party, a party that by liberals “rudderless” is mentioned.

Health Minister Edith Schippers still has no assurance that the Labour Party the next time voting for her “enhanced plans”, the very party leader Diederik Samsom there ‘ hopeful ‘on has. Despite tough talk, the Liberals finally saw that a cabinet crisis is too audacious consequence of an audacious strategy. The VVD would thus put the position of Prime Minister Mark Rutte at stake.

Marijke Linthorst (left) and Guusje ter Horst (right), two of the dissident PvdA © anp.

Labour leader Diederik Samsom © anp.

Permission
A ‘list’ was coined to mask the face of loss Minister Schippers. The government has supposedly found an ‘escape route’ through the Senate. If the senators to vote against it anyway get in their heads, the coalition wants to introduce the care plans through an ‘administrative action’. There would be no consent of the Senate are required.

,, We will arrange the left or right, “said VVD party leader Halbe Zijlstra last night. Even Labour leader Diederik Samson believes a good warranty ‘ as unexpectedly our bill does not make it. “

It is an option that seems both legally questionable and politically dubious. The Senate will take it as an insult. It can minister Edith Schippers with a bit of luck even yield a confidence vote in the Senate, says an insider.

In the House, there is now a new problem. The three gedogers, D66, Christian Union and SGP, do not follow the new improvisation arts Rutte II . ,, We do not agree with the government, “explained D66, Christian Union and SGP after nocturnal council unanimously. ,, The government is constitutionally impure, “says Christian Union leader Arie Slob. A disappointment for coalition sources that earlier in the evening victory crowed.

How to move forward without befriended opposition remains unclear. Three days and nights full tragicomic scenes – a wegsluipende prime minister until night negotiations at the bedside of the rebellious Labour senator Adri Devil-steijn – ultimately deliver an open end on ,, The coalition parties have found each other again, ” says a coalition source ,, That’s.. profit. ” The resistance of the gedogers would only ‘game’. There is again bought time.

Humility
The Rutte II has been a long lesson in humility for all protagonists. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Samson began as titanium particles with a secret recipe to unify the ideologies of VVD and PvdA in ‘the best of both worlds. ” After a dizzying array of crises that bravado is a distant memory.

,, We are in very well become to solve problems, “a prominent PvdA said this week without irony. Unfortunately, the coalition at least as good in causing industrial accidents. This time the PvdA top forgot to convince all senators of government policy, although there are already eight months lay ready a proposal.

Rutte II may provisionally on, but no one is unbroken. The VVD has curved back. The Labour Party looks more vulnerable than ever. And while Samson in this government just wanted to be a reliable government partner that not every breath of wind would back bargaining, a feature where the Labour Party is notorious for. That’s why he kept Rather hose to the criminalization of illegal immigrants, a measure that would split his party and still have died. Even then had Samson backtracking for his party.

After this episode is the image of a reliable partner little about. The VVD they can count four Labour MPs are disillusioned left, three senators brought the government to totter, one of whom – Duivesteijn – recidivist is. This government has the Labour Party to require little. More than grace eat bread with the merciful VVD is not in there.

Both parties also can live with that, as long as elections but inevitable. ,, There are expletives cases, “said VVD party leader Halbe Zijlstra last night. ,, But I am confident that the good comes. The Health Care Act takes the finish line.” So the coalition is again optimistic, as for the small, powerful crisis.