New Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schof pledged to work in the direction of the federal government’s most important purpose of decreasing immigration in his first speech to parliament on Wednesday.
In his speech, Shaw mentioned one of many authorities’s most important targets is to scale back immigration, including: “The largest of those points is asylum and immigration, which is the crux of the matter regardless of the way you have a look at it.”
“Immigration places enormous stress on social providers and social cohesion, with excessive numbers of asylum and immigration functions and excessive social pressures,” Skow famous.
The official settlement forming the brand new authorities, known as “Hope, Braveness, Delight”, takes powerful measures towards asylum seekers, abolishes refugee household reunification and seeks to scale back the variety of worldwide college students finding out within the nation.
Schaaf, who succeeded his predecessor Mark Rutte on Tuesday, is notably not a member of any of the 4 events that make up the coalition authorities.
The 4 events within the coalition authorities are the Freedom Social gathering led by Wilders, the centre-right Folks’s Social gathering for Freedom and Democracy led by Rutte, the populist Residents’ and Peasants’ Motion and the centrist New Social Contract occasion.
The 67-year-old former head of the Dutch intelligence and counter-terrorism service was an surprising option to change into prime minister.
The anti-immigration occasion led by Geert Wilders received probably the most seats in final yr’s election and took 223 days to type a four-party coalition authorities.
Opposition from different coalition companions prevented the controversial Wilders from changing into prime minister.
Opposition politicians didn’t miss the chance to criticize the brand new authorities.
“For the primary time, a celebration with far-right concepts has a seat in authorities,” Frans Timmermans, chief of the Social Democratic-Inexperienced coalition, advised parliament instantly after Skow.
He described the insurance policies of Wilders’s occasion as “racist” and introduced that he would introduce a movement of no-confidence in two members of the federal government over their views on “demographic restructuring” and their perception in conspiracy theories that scale back the affect of white individuals.
Wilders denied accusations that any member of his occasion was racist, telling parliament: “Not a single (Liberal Social gathering) member within the Home of Representatives or within the nationwide cupboard has something to do with racist Nazi idea. “
Discussions are anticipated to proceed till Thursday.
