{"id":374865,"date":"2024-07-02T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/02\/governo-paesi-bassi-giuramento-schoof\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:24:14","slug":"netherlands-new-right-wing-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/02\/netherlands-new-right-wing-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands&#8217; new right-wing government has been sworn in before the King. Dick Schoof is Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; From today, the Netherlands has a new government, never before so skewed to the right. The newly appointed prime minister, <strong>Dick Schoof<\/strong>, and his team of 15 ministers were sworn in this morning (July 2) at the Huis ten Bosch Palace in front of <strong>King Willem-Alexander<\/strong>, marking the beginning of a government experiment between Liberals, Populars, and the far right in The Hague. &#8220;<strong>For a safe and fair Netherlands, with social security for all<\/strong>,&#8221; the new Premier wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MinPres\/status\/1808064460021502057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> on X: &#8220;I am in favor of keeping control over migration, maintaining dialogue, making choices, and being clear about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/16\/the-netherlands-ready-for-a-right-wing-government-agreement-found-after-six-months-wrath-of-european-greens-against-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement between the four political forces<\/a> that formed the new governing coalition, on May 28 they decided on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/28\/right-wing-coalition-in-the-netherlands-finds-premier-candidate-former-intelligence-chief-schoof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the name of the Prime Minister<\/a>, the former secretary general of the Ministry of Justice and Security, who met with the leaders of the Liberals from the <strong>People&#8217;s Party for Freedom and Democracy<\/strong> (VVD), of the center-right <strong>New Social Contract<\/strong> (NSC), the <strong>Civic-Country Movement<\/strong> (BBB), and the far-right <strong>Party for Freedom<\/strong>(PVV). After 223 days from the November 22, 2023, legislative elections, the successor to <strong>Mark Rutte<\/strong>, who, after nearly 14 years as prime minister of the Netherlands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/26\/mark-rutte-has-been-named-stoltenbergs-successor-as-nato-secretary-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is ready to assume the post of NATO secretary-general<\/a> in October, officially took office. &#8220;I look forward to working with you in a constructive partnership for the good of the Netherlands and Europe,&#8221; the President of the European Commission, <strong>Ursula von der Leyen,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/1808067797999600041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> congratulated<\/a> the new Premier with the President of the European Council, <strong>Charles Michel, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlesMichel\/status\/1808064474194088146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">following suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18038724\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h3 id='what-happened-in-the-last-election-in-the-netherlands'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">What happened in the last election in the Netherlands<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">According to the results of the November 22, 2023 elections, the far-right PVV party recorded the most convincing electoral test in its history, becoming the <strong>first force in Parliament and claiming the leadership of the Netherlands<\/strong>: with 23.5 percent of the vote, it was 8 percentage points ahead of the coalition between the Labor Party and the Green Left GroenLinks, led by the former head for the European Green Deal in the EU Commission, <strong>Frans Timmermans<\/strong>. Despite the increase in the number of votes (+4.7 percent) compared to the last election in 2021 &#8211; when the two forces ran divided &#8211; <strong>the red-green coalition stopped in second place with 25 seats, behind the PVV&#8217;s 37<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Third place went to the center-right of the <b>People&#8217;s Party for Freedom and Democracy<\/b> (which, despite its name, is not part of the European People&#8217;s Party family but of the Liberals of Renew Europe), with a <strong>6.7 percentage point drop and 10 fewer seats<\/strong> at the <em>Tweede Kamer<\/em> (from 34 to 24); same fate for the Liberals of <strong>Democraten 66<\/strong> (from 24 to 9 seats) and the Christian Democrats of <strong>Christian Democratic Appeal<\/strong> (from 15 to 5). There was a feat for the new center-right <b>New Social Contract<\/b> formation, which placed fourth with 12.8 percent and 20 seats. Also noteworthy was the advance of the <strong>County Civic Movement<\/strong> &#8211; a populist party that advocates farmers&#8217; interests &#8211; with 7 seats (+6 from last term).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swearing-in ceremony at the Huis ten Bosch Palace in front of King Willem-Alexander kicks off the new government coalition between Liberals, centre-right and far-right. 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