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The Dutch Government collapsed after an 18-month unorthodox coalition fell apart over immigration policies. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte issued his resignation on Saturday, July 8, to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands who abruptly returned from Greece to accept the outgoing prime minister’s resignation.
The four-party coalition comprised of Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the liberal democratic Democrats 66, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and centrist ChristenUnie.
The Dutch Government collapsed after two members of the coalition Democrats 66 and the ChristenUnie disagreed with Rutte’s bill to limit the number of children joining their parents who are already war refugees living in the Netherlands and imposing an additional two-year wait to reunite those families.
Earlier this year the Farmer Citizen Movement (BBB) a center right to right party won 16 of 75 Senate seats, receiving the most seats in all twelve provinces with 137 of 572 Provincial seats. The party was founded in October 2019 in response to the widespread farmers’ protests.
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