Van der Steur Minister Teeven back in Room – AD.nl

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19-3-15 – 20:34

Teeven Van der Steur follows: I want to work for my money

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Update The VVD is a musical chairs going . MP Ard van der Steur is expected to be sworn in Friday as the new Minister of Security and Justice. Fred Teeven, former State Secretary of Security and Justice, then returns to the liberal parliamentary group to take his place.

The 45-year-old Van der Steur adheres as MP engaged in security and justice. At the Ministry he follows Ivo Opstelten, who last Monday resigned as minister because he parliament misinformed about a million deal that Teeven fifteen years ago as a prosecutor with drug criminal Cees H. had closed. Although Teeven of the VVD did not have to leave, he followed Opstelten. It is not yet known who the new Secretary of State on Security and Justice.

Johan Houwers

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The VVD meanwhile gets a seat lost in the Lower House. Former VVD MP Johan Houwers was a candidate to succeed Mark Verheijen, who recently stepped down after fussing over his declaration behavior. But because Houwers according judiciary guilty of mortgage fraud, he was no longer welcome in the VVD. Hewers demands his seat yet and comes as a loner in the back room.

VVD party leader Halbe Zijlstra thinks ,, seat sheer robbery. ” Masons did not want to go in there. His decision means that the government parties VVD and PvdA have only the smallest possible majority of 76 of the 150 parliament seats. The coalition was there until recently 79 seats, but after the departure of Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk from the Labour Party, there were only 77 left. The discontinuation of Houwers has been a further fragmentation in the House, which has sixteen fractions Houwers it.

Elections
The VVD was to collect more setback. The party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte remains after the provincial elections on Wednesday the largest party in the Senate with thirteen of the 75 seats. But that’s a loss of three seats. In addition, the partnership between the coalition parties and the ‘friendly opposition’ D66, Christian Union and SGP no longer a majority in the Senate, which the government needs the support of more opposition parties to get things done.