LIVE Visser is accountable for naval base Inland

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“The minister was also involved in this entire process.” It is this sentence in the letter that State Secretary Visser sent to the House of Representatives on Wednesday that fixed the CDA. It is not without reason that VVD members eagerly pointed to the passage. The message: if the Christian Democrats want to get the secretary of state of the coalition partner away, they will drag their minister Ank Bijleveld along.

Now the CDA has no clean hands in the decision-making process anyway. It was then CDA minister Hillen (Defense) who in 2012 hastily decided to move the marines barracks from Doorn to Zeeland, where his party colleague Peijs was commissioner of the king. Already a year later, research showed that the Marines themselves did not like the move.

Hillens successor Hennis (VVD) let the move simmer and left a corpse in the closet for party member Visser. In 2018, he could hardly ignore the marines’ protest. Concerns about deflation in the Corps arose that spring, the state secretary writes. She also started consultations with Mayor Aboutaleb about expanding the barracks for marines in or near Rotterdam. She also had to find out whether the marines really could not stay in Doorn.

‘Sorry’

“She entered into consultations with Jan and everyone, except the Zeelanders,” SP MP Karabulut explains the state of affairs. “It must succeed once to be transparent?” Still, she has no vote of no confidence in her back pocket for Thursday’s debate, if only because the debate has already been held in which the Secretary of State said “sorry” no fewer than nineteen times.

“She consulted with Jan and everyone, except with the Zeeuwen”

SGP MP Stoffer, who filed a motion of censure in February, will not do this this time. “We agree that Zeeland has been insulted. Now we need to look ahead and ensure that the province is properly compensated. ”

The ChristenUnie was very critical after the decision of February to cancel the move to Vlissingen; Member of Parliament Voordewind thought that the Zeelanders had been insulted. What he did not say was that he was aware of the plan longer, because he had been briefed on it by Visser and Bijleveld. Moreover, at an earlier stage he was still very critical of the move.

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