Monday, January 19, 2015

Councillors got in 2014 mainly due to integrity problems – nrc.nl

Councillors got in 2014 mainly due to integrity problems – nrc.nl

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Jos van Rey prior to the opening of the exhibition Louis Raemaekers in December 2014. The VVD Alderman had to resign in 2012 after it had raised questions about his integrity. Photo ANP / Marcel Horn

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Last year, 27 aldermen prematurely jammed due to political reasons. A third did so because of integrity problems, such as the apparent conflict of interest or unethical act.

This is evident from the Annual Survey of Alderman the journal Internal Administration . It is notable that in 2013 79 councilors fell down due to political reasons. Of these, only six did away to integrity problems.

The main reason that councilors have stopped prematurely, the municipal reorganization. 47 councilors were this way.

Also notable on the outcome of the research is that after the municipal elections of 2014 have left fewer councilors. After the elections last year got sixteen councilors on; After the elections in 2010 that there were 28 and in 2006 33. Internal Administration is because there are fewer coalitions were killed. In 2010, after the elections fell eight coalitions; four years later, there are only two (in Culemborg and Leidschendam-Voorburg).

The cause of peace in the coalition is under investigation by the coalitions that were formed last year are broader than those of 2010 . In addition, signals that the Provincial Government coalitions are busy with the transfer of care responsibilities from central government to the municipalities. If later this year, it becomes clear how this decentralization unpacking, political settlements can still follow, so the researchers suspect

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