Mark Rutte, the performing prime minister of the Netherlands, would be the subsequent secretary basic of NATO. The North Atlantic Council —the organ of political choice that teams the 32 ambassadors of the international locations that type the coalition – has determined that Rutte will succeed Jens Stoltenberg on the head of the Alliance from 1 October, when the mandate of the Norwegian who has been in workplace for the final ten years expires.
Who’s Mark Rutte?
Mark Rutte (1967, The Hague) has been on the head of 4 consecutive governments within the Netherlands since 2010, that’s, for 14 consecutive years. With a level in Historical past, Rutte has been in politics since his youth: within the 80s he was president of the youth of the Folks’s Get together for Freedom and Democracy (VDD, for its acronym in Dutch), a celebration that he has led since 2006.
Resignation in 2021Rutte resigned together with his authorities in January 2021 over a scandal involving racial discrimination within the provision of social advantages to households with kids. These affected, most of whom had been immigrants, had been accused of baseless fraud and compelled to repay the advantages. The Dutch chief ran as head of his occasion’s record and received his fourth re-election in January 2022.
Fall of his cupboard in 2023. Mark Rutte He once more submitted his resignation because of disagreements over asylum coverage in July 2023. The Prime Minister known as for a tightening of the household reunification coverage for struggle refugees, a place that ended up breaking apart the coalition authorities.
Since then, his Authorities has assumed a provisional position pending the formation of a brand new cupboard after the November 2023 elections, which it misplaced to the formation far-right Get together for Freedom (PVV).
Protection spending. Amongst his most controversial measures, Mark Rutte has elevated protection spending in his nation, which has gone from 1.44% in 2022 to 2.05%particularly following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Profile of Mark Rutte from the Authorities of the Netherlands
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