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Premier Mark Rutte plunges from this month of the election campaign for the Senate. “These are national elections, which also directly affect the cabinet,” Rutte said in an interview with NRC Weekend . “I’ll probably do a few debates themselves.” It is the first time that Rutte does in an election in which he is also eligible.
On March 18, the Provincial Council will be chosen in May the new Senate assemblies. Coalition parties VVD and PvdA have a majority there and the question now is whether they love with grace party D66, Christian Union and SGP 38 of the 75 seats.
Normally but always carry a few weeks campaign the VVD, taking the prime minister as much aloof as possible. Now Rutte and his party clearly choose a different strategy, he says.
“My message to the Netherlands: it is now better, now no experiments!”
He has already begun: “We go campaigning from January “
Senate has become a politician ‘
Not only the survival of the government may depend on the results of the provincial elections,” moreover -. that is simply a statement of fact – the Senate has in recent years become more political, “says Rutte
The abolition of the Senate he does not see as a solution, if only because such a constitutional amendment in years. would seize.
“I’m not opposed to look fundamentally at our polity. Changes, however, take a long time so I have to deal with the system as it is. And in that context I must make sure I achieve results. We will be the next must take years note that a coalition is not always in both Houses have a majority. “
Rutte calculates the three tolerated parties incidentally to the government camp and wants to continue with them in the present tolerance structure in the Senate. “Regardless of the outcome, the government continues to sit anyway.” Yet he is aiming in the Senate “five of us get a majority.” Then, he says, “a very good chance.”
in 2014 there was a serious political problem “
In addition look forward to the upcoming election battle Rutte looks in the interview back in 2014. That ended with” a serious political problem “when three PvdA senators for a flat Christmas blockaded a Health Care Act. After three days talking coalitietop decided to submit the law again, with some minor changes. Rutte hereinafter. Confidence in the ability of the coalition to solve problems “
The main event for the prime minister – not just in the past year, but of his premiership – was the disaster MH17 that 196 Dutch killed. But talking in an interview about his own feelings around the downed plane, he finds “really totally inappropriate”, because of the suffering of the relatives
Read the full interview with Prime Minister Mark Rutte NRC weeekend.: Netherlands knows quite a lot about me (€)
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