What a day, the last day of my vacation and the cabinet resigns. Which has no relation as you know.
It started with the Ayaan Hirsi Ali case. Our Minister of stranger affairs and immigration (translation) denials Ali the citizenship she became 5 years ago. Then she investigates the mater and concludes she was wrong. Ali lied only about her age and not about her surname.
That doesn't matter for her citizenship.
Ali only had to write a letter in which she should state she also will be known as Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the future. To satisfy the minister she should excuse herself in the letter.
The last sentence was one action to much. With this the minister blames Ali for everything while the minister made some mistakes too. Ali had no choice to sign the letter under presure. This was the last straw. The minister should resign. There was no more confidence in minister Verdonk.
One party who had no more confidence had also 2 ministers in the cabinet and as a result of this lack of confidence of the party both ministers resigned.
This left the cabinet without a mayority. The prime minister offered his resignation to the queen of the Netherlands. And now it's a question what will happen.
A continuation of policy and the minister who should resign stays in the cabinet?
This should not be appropriate.
One thing is sure election will be earlier than May 2007
Of course I've been on a cycletour from my house to Great Britain, France, Belgium and then home again, 20 days. Seen a lot, meet some interesting people and cycled a long distance.
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