Now informer Hamer today her final report has submitted A next phase is starting in the formation, and that will be a phase in which VVD celebrity Johan Remkes will almost certainly take over. It was his job to form a government coalition almost six months after the elections and several failed attempts.
De Groninger seems a good candidate to get this difficult job done. In recent years, the experienced administrator has become the most important political problem solver.
Remkes (70) is someone with a good sense of political relations, explains political reporter Ron Fresen. “He goes his own way fairly imperturbably, with a firm hand, and eventually knows how to take others along with him.”
Moreover, Remkes is not someone who has a very strong party color and that is why he enjoys the confidence of other parties, Fresen knows. “For example, he wrote an important report on the nitrogen crisis and in it he cracked the approach of the cabinet led by a VVD prime minister.” Useful properties for the man who has to refloat the stalled formation.
He has been involved in politics for decades. From the late 1970s, first in Groningen as a councilor, member of parliament and deputy, later as a member of parliament, state secretary and minister. In 2010, he was appointed Queen’s Commissioner in North Holland, where he succeeded Harry Borghouts, who had resigned due to two scandals.
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