Information & Politics•4 Jul ’24 17:10Author: BNR Net Editors
The talk within the Home of Representatives on the federal government assertion was briefly suspended. The rationale for the intermezzo is a dialog between Prime Minister Dick Schoof and his Deputy Prime Minister Fleur Agema a few tweet she despatched through the debate. The Minister of Well being shared an outdated article by Mayor Halsema, by which she calls on girls to take off their headscarves. The tweet refers to a dialogue that had arisen earlier concerning the headband of PvdA-GroenLinks MP Esmah Lahlah.
This afternoon, there was disagreement within the Home of Representatives, partly as a result of D66 chief Rob Jetten cited earlier statements by PVV ministers Fleur Agema and Marjolein Faber about MP Esmah Lahlah carrying a scarf. For instance, Faber shared a message that referred to a ‘PvdA headband’.
Schoof addressed the PvdA-GroenLinks MP immediately, saying: ‘The truth that you might be carrying a scarf makes no distinction to me. To me, you might be only a human being.’ Lahlah then took the ground and stated into the interruption microphone that nobody forces her to put on a scarf. It’s an expression of her identification and religion, stated the politician, who then left the room in tears.
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema shared this fragment from the talk immediately. Halsema expressed her help for her social gathering colleague, and hoped ‘that each Muslim lady who’s confronted with judgments and discrimination will draw power from this’. Minister Agema took a screenshot of the mayor’s message and posted it on Twitter, however accompanied by a duplicate of an outdated newspaper article, by which Halsema said that she had ‘issue with the headband’.
‘Twitter is an odd phenomenon’
The minister has since been addressed about her habits through the debate. ‘Mr. Chairman, Twitter is such an odd phenomenon. All of us take part in it in our personal approach. Throughout a debate, ministers don’t tweet. Agema now agrees with that,’ the prime minister stated after the assembly.
After the brief break, the opposition sharpened its knives. Comparisons with a ‘kindergarten class’ have been within the air. However even inside the coalition itself, discord has arisen concerning the scenario. In her contribution, VVD chief Dilan Yesilgöz says she has no good phrase for Agema’s tweet. She additionally accuses PVV chief Geert Wilders of getting a hand in it, one thing Wilders denies within the strongest phrases. He referred to as it a ‘false, soiled accusation’.
The talk within the Home of Representatives on the federal government assertion was briefly suspended. The rationale for the intermezzo is a dialog between Prime Minister Dick Schoof and his Deputy Prime Minister Fleur Agema a few tweet she despatched through the debate. (ANP / Peter Hilz)
