On Friday February 19 the Dutch cabinet fell about an argument over the Dutch presence in Afghanistan. The Dutch approach will be no longer effective from August 2010. The 3 parties in the cabinet agreed upon it. Maybe other countries will have the knowledge to do our task.
The cabinet of ministers was formed in 2006 and it decided that troops in Afghanistan would pulled out of A. at December 2010 at the latest. In those days the parties had a majority in the House of Parliament. But now their support is less.
Half February the question rose what to do with the Dutch presence in A. There was an agreement between the parties, but their attitudes changed over the years in between. Labour wanted to go, the Christians wanted to stay and the confessional party didn't have an opinion.
Party leader and vice Minister-President of the Labour party Wouter Bos kept his back straight to keep the other parties to their agreement. In a previous election he was blamed he was a leader with ants in his pants, someone who can't be trusted, a liar.
At the regional election on March 3 the governing parties lost a lot of support.
Maybe that is the reason why Bos stand by the agreement between the parties.
Bos could go so far maybe because he knew that he had a successor namely the major of Amsterdam. Job Cohen could do a fine job for this country. He has the ability to keep people together.
The National elections on June 9 will give an answer on the difficulties politics finds itself.
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