The Dutch Prime Minister decides to leave politics

In the Netherlands, where the political crisis was experienced last week, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that he will not seek a fifth term.

Rutte, who said he would not participate in the elections scheduled for November and decided to leave Dutch politics, submitted the resignation of his fourth cabinet on Friday last week.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Rutte had promised his party that within a week he would present a new asylum plan with drastic measures.

The four parties that make up the coalition have been discussing the plan since Wednesday. The government partners, who met for the third time on Friday, again failed to agree.

In particular, there was no consensus on the issue of the return of refugees from the war zone and the limitation of family reunification of these people.

The government’s junior partner, the Christian Union Party (CU), assessed the proposal that refugees from war zones wait 2 years for family reunification and limit family reunification to 200 people per month as “bullying”.

The government’s liberal partner, the Democrats 66 Party (D66), also opposed this article supporting CU.

According to the Dutch media, the deeply religious CU, which “identifies the family issue as a red line”, did not back down from its stance and led to the fall of the 4th Rutte government.

The stance of Prime Minister Rutte, who set a deadline on Wednesday and pushed for a cabinet vote on the plan, angered coalition partners, according to sources in The Hague.

Although Rutte apologized for his position, according to his partners, trust was damaged too much and the fall of the government became inevitable.

Opposition parties hailed the fall of the government and called for immediate early elections.