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On Tuesday, after her conversation with informateur Mariëtte Hamer, Kaag expressed her preference for a ‘stable and as progressive as possible’ cabinet with the aforementioned five parties. As far as she is concerned, this could already be in the foreseeable future: “We are committed to it and hope that our commitment will be shared that we will have a new cabinet before the summer.”
On Wednesday, other parties are arguing for the incumbent cabinet to get started with a budget in which the most urgent matters are tackled. “It will not be a very policy-poor budget,” suggests CU leader Gert-Jan Segers on Tuesday morning after his conversation with Hamer.
“In the short term it is really about economic recovery,” says Segers as the first point for the budget. But he also touches on the housing file. “And then you inevitably run into the nitrogen problem.” According to him, the ‘settlement’ of the benefits affair and the earthquake file in Groningen cannot be left on the shelf for too long.
Wopke Hoekstra, in addition to CDA leader also outgoing Minister of Finance, also thinks that the cabinet should get to work. “Given where it is now,” he refers to the two months that the difficult formation has already taken, “it will certainly be the case that this cabinet will have to initiate the next budget.”
Do not let them look in the cards
Hoekstra does not want to be in the cards yet about participating in the next cabinet of his CDA. “I have always said that I can very well imagine that we as the CDA will go into the opposition, but also that I can very well imagine that we will participate in a next cabinet.”
The CDA leader will let any cabinet participation depend on the content and who else will join. He hopes that a smaller group of parties will soon continue to talk. In addition to the most frequently mentioned potential government parties VVD, D66, CDA, PvdA and GL, this could also be SP, CU, SGP and JA21. Hoekstra does not want to say whether he likes a cabinet with both left-wing parties PvdA and GL: “I’m not going to pimpampettes now.”
Informator Mariëtte Hamer receives CU leader Gert-Jan Segers.
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GL leader Jesse Klaver, in turn, says that he will in any case stick to the PvdA during the formation: “I also indicated that to the informateur.” Klaver also thinks it is a good idea that the current cabinet is already starting to work on some matters: “There is an urgent need for many subjects.”
PVV leader Geert Wilders, who has already directed himself towards the opposition, already dares to outline the Rutte 4 cabinet. He expects in any case VVD, D66 and CDA, supplemented by PvdA or GL. “I think that in the end the cards have been shuffled for a long time,” says Wilders.
CU no longer excludes
Segers still does not see CU entering the new cabinet: “There are nine parties for us, you have to start at the top. So it takes a long time before our turn. ” But he does not rule out harshly either, after he said around Easter that he no longer wanted to sit in a new cabinet under VVD leader Mark Rutte.
Now he calls it ‘not obvious’ that the old coalition of VVD, CDA, D66 and CU ‘continues as new’. “I want a credible break with the past,” Segers said on Tuesday. “But that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t want to have a say in the content. I want that, but as a constructive party in the opposition. ”
PvdD leader Esther Ouwehand is a bit different in the game, she still wants the VVD to continue without Rutte: „The VVD has taken the entire formation hostage by holding on to Rutte. The VVD has actually caused a very big problem, so I think they should solve the problems first and only then can you start forming. ”
There are more and more voices at the PvdA to take government responsibility. That is what political commentator Wouter de Winther says in the latest episode of the podcast Afhameren:
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