These are the new VVD faces in the Rutte IV cabinet | Inland

According to insiders, Yesilgöz and Wiersma will become Ministers of Justice and Security and Ministers for Primary and Secondary Education, respectively. Together with Rutte, the two are the only ministers to move on to the new cabinet, but they only took office in August.

Adriaansens, Van der Burg and Helder

The VVD provides the necessary new faces. For example, Member of Parliament Micky Adriaansens becomes Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate. She is a business administrator and currently director of the consultancy firm TwynstraGudde. Another senator Eric van der Burg, former alderman and ex-acting mayor of Amsterdam, will also be given an important post in the new cabinet. He will be the new State Secretary for Asylum and Migration and will succeed Ankie Broekers-Knol.

The liberals are also getting a new minister from ‘outside’. The newcomer to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport is health care director Conny Helder. She will become Minister for Long-term Care and Sport and is currently a board member at Actiz, the trade association of Dutch healthcare organisations.

The new faces, at least as far as the ‘puppets’ are concerned, must be an interpretation of the ‘new impetus’ that VVD leader Rutte recently promised.

Hoekstra and De Jonge make way for D66 members

The distribution of the posts of the new Rutte IV cabinet among the parties was announced on Thursday. D66 is the second party to claim the ministerial post on Finance. This means that CDA leader Hoekstra will end up elsewhere in the cabinet. D66 has also claimed the place of current corona minister Hugo de Jonge.

The party will also supply a minister to Defense and Education, but also has to find a state secretary for the earthquake problem in Groningen.

Van der Wal and Van der Maat

In addition to the aforementioned posts, the VVD will also receive the Minister for Nature & Nitrogen. For the latter post, the name of VVD party chairman and Gelders deputy Christianne van der Wal is mentioned. Christophe van der Maat, now deputy in Brabant, will become State Secretary for Defence.

Mark Harbers gets a new chance after his short period as State Secretary for Asylum in Rutte 3. He will become Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management. MEP Liesje Schreinemacher will assume the ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. The heavy file of the allowance affair is in the hands of the experienced MP Aukje de Vries.

In addition to Finance and Public Health, the CDA also loses its post at the Ministry of Justice and Security, where Minister Ferd Grapperhaus is still sitting. The lawyer of origin, who was strongly committed to the protection of journalists, among other things, announced on Thursday that he would not return to the new team of ministers.

The Christian Democrats do provide two ministers to the Ministry of the Interior, including one for the housing file. Those from Social Affairs and Foreign Affairs are also part of the party. It is still unclear which ministry CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra will run.

Schouten

At Social Affairs, the CDA will be joined by CU, which will supply the Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions. The name of current agriculture minister Carola Schouten is mentioned in this position in The Hague. The party will also retain the current posts of the Minister of Agriculture, where Schouten will not continue, and the State Secretary at the Ministry of Health.

Formateur and intended prime minister Mark Rutte will talk next week with the upcoming ministers, whose names will already be announced on Sunday 2 January. On Monday 10 January, the cabinet must be on the platform according to schedule.

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