The Rotterdam metropolis council has nominated Carola Schouten as Ahmed Aboutaleb’s successor as mayor of Rotterdam. This was introduced by Rotterdam councillor Ruud van der Velden on behalf of the council’s confidential committee, which performed the mayor’s utility process. This was achieved in collaboration with the King’s Commissioner of South Holland Jaap Smit.
A number of prime candidates
If Schouten’s screening goes properly, she will likely be put in on October 10. Schouten’s identify had already been circulating as one of many prime candidates for the place. The announcement of her identify was greeted with loud applause by the council members. ‘The brand new mayor will likely be put in on 10-10, how may it’s in any other case in 010,’ stated Van der Velden when the identify was introduced. Based on SP council member and member of the confidential committee Theo Coskun, there have been a number of appropriate candidates among the many 26 candidates, however there was broad assist for Schouten’s candidacy.
A kind of candidates was former minister Hugo de Jonge. On X he writes: To be trustworthy: I’d have preferred to be. However the metropolis is in good palms with Carola.’ De Jonge needs Schouten ‘quite a lot of success and all the most effective for our stunning Rotterdam’.
Poverty coverage
Schouten (46) was deputy prime minister and minister of Poverty Coverage, Participation and Pensions within the Rutte IV cupboard on behalf of the Christian Union till the Schoof cupboard took workplace this week. Within the third Rutte cupboard, she was minister of Agriculture, Nature and Meals High quality. Social gathering chief of the Christian Union Mirjam Bikker thinks the nomination of CU politician Schouten is ‘nice information’. Former CU faction chief Gert-Jan Segers can be more than happy with Rotterdam’s alternative ‘for this lady with such a pointy thoughts and such an enormous, heat coronary heart’.
Congratulations
The Rotterdam department of the Christian Union needs Schouten ‘many blessings and knowledge’ in her new place. ‘We’re completely satisfied that in Carola we could have a mayor who has a coronary heart for the town and one eye on all the things and everybody who’s susceptible.’ The Hague mayor Jan van Zanen congratulated Carola Schouten final night time on her nomination as the brand new mayor of Rotterdam. ‘In her response she known as it an honour to turn out to be a colleague, I feel the alternative is true’, says Van Zanen. ‘I stay up for our collaboration in her new function. Within the G4 context, but in addition throughout the Rotterdam The Hague metropolitan area. Rotterdam could have a dedicated mayor and I’ll have a nice colleague.’ The Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema additionally congratulated Schouten on the nomination. ”A beautiful workplace, for a terrific metropolis. I’m very a lot wanting ahead to the collaboration.’
Three out of 4
With Carola Schouten, three of the 4 main cities will quickly have a lady as mayor. After Femke Halsema in Amsterdam and Sharon Dijksma in Utrecht, Schouten can be quantity three. Solely The Hague will then nonetheless have a person on the head of the board of mayor and aldermen, with Jan van Zanen.
