For that we have to go back to the first two weeks after the elections, at the end of March. Confidence in the current prime minister – and the dead new prime minister – Mark Rutte was badly damaged when it turned out that he had questioned Pieter Omtzigt’s position during the formation talks. Omtzigt is a popular MP for CDA, which is regularly a louse in the pelt for the government.
The biggest problem? Rutte had explicitly denied in the press that he had spoken about Omtzigt during the talks. When it finally came to light, he said he “remembered it wrong”. Several parties withdrew their confidence in Rutte, but the Dutch prime minister remained in place as leader of the VVD, the largest party in the Netherlands.
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