During the Debate of the South, D66 leader Kaag opened the attack on party leaders Rutte (VVD) and Hoekstra (CDA) on Saturday evening. She spoke to them about the collaboration with Forum for Democracy. “Principles are not only national.”
After the 2019 Provincial Council elections, the VVD and the CDA formed a coalition with Thierry Baudet’s party. A choice that caused a lot of hassle, especially within Hoekstra’s party.
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However, according to Rutte, this collaboration was inevitable. According to the prime minister, the VVD first tried to talk to the progressive parties D66, GroenLinks and the PvdA, but they quickly pulled the plug on those talks. Rutte: “We tried to form a minority coalition with you, but you walked away three times.” Remarkable, because that would mean that Rutte wanted to ignore the national coalition partner CDA.
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Kaag indicates that a collaboration with the VVD in Brabant has never really been an issue. “You were eyeing the Forum from the start.” She then asks how Rutte explains that he rules out cooperation with Baudet’s party nationally because of ‘anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny’, but does not do that in Brabant. “Principles are not only national.” Rutte counteracts this by stating that it concerns other people, with whom it is fine to work.
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