ANPYesilgöz in the House of Representatives
NOS News•today, 03:54•Edited today, 04:29
Outgoing minister Dilan Yesilgöz wants to succeed Mark Rutte as leader of the VVD. Yesilgöz says in De Telegraaf that she is ready to “make the Netherlands even stronger and more resilient”.
Yesilgöz was already seen as a possible leader of the VVD. Now it is clear that she is the preferred candidate of the party board. The VVD board had announced that it would nominate a candidate this week, after Rutte had announced his departure from politics on Monday.
Yesilgöz, 46, has been Minister of Justice and Security since last year. Before that, she was State Secretary and Member of Parliament. Before moving to The Hague in 2017, she was a councilor in Amsterdam.
In recent months, as minister, she led the cabinet negotiations on migration policy. They did not lead to results; last Friday the cabinet fell over it.
Premiership?
In De Telegraaf Yesilgöz says he is ready for the next step as party leader and possibly prime minister, “insofar as you can be fully prepared for that role in advance”. She points to the various political positions she has held at the local and national level. “I now bring a mountain of experience with me.”
Yesilgöz is the second VVD member to run for party leadership. Former Member of Parliament André Bosman already did this on Monday. A member consultation will therefore follow.
On Monday and yesterday, other VVD prominents already announced that they were not available to succeed Rutte. Edith Schippers, Klaas Dijkhoff and Sophie Hermans, among others, thanked.
Yesterday Yesilgöz said – with a smile – that she was thinking about the vacancy:
‘I’m still thinking about it’
2023-07-12 01:54:33
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