Labour leader Diederik Samsom denies having threatened a cabinet crisis as yet more than 35 billion cubic meters of gas is extracted in Groningen this year. The Labour mayor Meindert Schollema claimed earlier that Samson the threat in a telephone conversation had made with him.
Schollema said in an interview with RTV Noord that he had arranged by telephone with Samson that he could say on behalf of the Labour leader: “If it is more than 35, then the Labour Party is no longer part of this government.”
Cabinet Crisis
Samson denies that he has threatened a cabinet crisis. According to his spokesman, the word “cabinet crisis” in the conversation did not fall.
The Labour leader would profess to have said that he does not let happen that more than 35 billion cubic meters won Groningen gas fields. Because, according to Samson, is “the motion filed enforced chosen for the safest scenario. The expression was not as ‘threatening’ meant to be.
Personal interpretation
Schollema scrambled after the denial of Samson something back and explained Friday that ” Diederik Samson has said that if there is still more than 35 billion cubic meters extracted, that he will not make it. “
According to the mayor, he had told Samson that he would report this to RTV Noord and he then his own interpretation to it:. that the Labour Party gets out of the cabinet, as the gas is not reduced
The phone call with Samson would have reassured Schollema. “He meant it from the bottom of his heart,” said the mayor.
The government decided earlier this week the gas production in the first half temporarily cutting back to 16.5 billion cubic meters. Around 1 July, Minister Henk Kamp (VVD) of Economic Affairs decides whether the gas is then increased again to 39.4 billion cubic meters of the previously planned
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