Rob Jetten therefore leaves the House of Representatives and gets one of the new posts in the cabinet. This morning RTL Nieuws reported that Sigrid Kaag (D66) the intended Minister of Finance is. Another D66 minister will also continue in the next cabinet. Kajsa Ollongren is the intended defense minister.
Robbert Dijkgraaf -scientist and known to the general public for his lectures at DWDD- will become Minister of Education, Culture and Science.
Rewarded
“Rob Jetten is being rewarded for years of work in the D66 party leadership,” says political reporter Fons Lambie. “He was discovered by Pechtold as a talent, was party chairman, stepped aside for Sigrid Kaag and now the negotiator in the formation. He was once described by VVD member Klaas Dijkhoff as a ‘climate pusher’, after which D66 sweaters and t-shirts with who had his name printed. Jetten is still regularly spotted in such a shirt.”
doubt
CDA member De Jonge will not return as Minister for Health, but will become the new Minister for Housing. “There have been doubts about De Jonge’s return,” says Lambie. “Some CDA members did not want De Jonge back, but other CDA members felt that you cannot put the corona minister in the trash. will no longer become deputy prime minister, but the crisis in the housing market is one of the new priorities for the new cabinet.”
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Rumors
It is not yet known which post CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra will fill. There are persistent rumors in The Hague that Hoekstra will fill the post of Foreign Affairs, but a well-established CDA member says that ‘not to be taken seriously’.
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CU names known
The names of the ChristenUnie are also known. Carola Schouten leaves the Ministry of Agriculture and becomes Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions. We also see two new faces: Henk staghouwer and Maarten van Ooijen. The Groningen deputy Staghouwer will become minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.
The 31-year-old Van Ooijen is currently alderman in Utrecht and will become State Secretary for Youth and Prevention.
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VVD delivers most posts
Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD supplies the most posts. It was already known that Dennis Wiersma (35), Christianne van der Wal (48) and Micky Adriaansens (47) will receive a ministerial post in the new Rutte IV cabinet. Wiersma, now outgoing State Secretary for Social Affairs, will become Minister for Primary and Secondary Education. Van der Wal, who is chairman of the VVD, will become Minister for Nature and Nitrogen.
Micky Adriaansens is currently a VVD senator in the Senate and is the intended Minister of Economic Affairs in the new cabinet.
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Dilan Yeşilgöz Minister of Justice
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius will become Minister of Justice and Security in the new cabinet. Yeşilgöz has been a Member of Parliament since 2017 and joined the already outgoing cabinet last year as State Secretary for Climate and Energy.
Mark Harbers will also return to the fourth Rutte cabinet. He will become Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management.
New faces
New faces on behalf of the VVD are MEP Liesje Schreinemacher as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and health care director Conny Helder who will become Minister for Long-term Care.
Senator and former Amsterdam alderman Eric van den Burg will be under his care as State Secretary for Asylum and Migration.
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