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Hi, I’m going to talk about the politics in the Netherlands and how the Dutch people think about the politics.
The politics in te Netherlands
- Our major political institutions are monarchy, the cabinet, the state’s general
- In the Netherlands we have a democracy, which means that the people can vote for who is going to rule the country and which parties are going to be in the government.
- We're also good with things like bookholding..oh wait, nevermind
- We are a constitutional monarchy, which means that we do have a king but the cabinet is making the decisions about our country. Our king is Willem Alexander but the only thing he does is cutting ribbons, waves and shaking hands. He also reads the Kings’ speech and the annual budget.
- It’s been a long time ago since we had a king
The people who are ruling our country is the cabinet with Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The cabinet is formed with 2 parties, the VVD and the PvDA.
The 75 members of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament (the States General) are elected by the members of the twelve Provincial Councils. These elections are indirect: the voters elect the members of the Provincial Councils, who in turn elect the members of the Senate.As the members of the Senate are not elected directly by the voters, they are rather more remote from the realities of daily politics. They do not, for example, electioneer.The criteria for membership are the same as those for the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament.Since the 1983 revision of the constitution the Senate has been elected in its entirety every four years by the members of the Provincial Council. The elections take place within three months of the Provincial Council elections.
The difference between these rooms areMembers of the House of Representatives are full-time politicians, whereas members of the Senate are part-timers who often hold other positions as well. They receive an allowance which is about a quarter of the salary of the members of the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives is mainly engaged in day-to-day politics. As such, it calls ministers to account, holds debates on new policy and undertakes detailed examination of bills.
The Senate is concerned only with the broad outline of policy. It can operate rather more independently than the House of Representatives.
The Senate has a revising role in relation to draft legislation. Its members do not have the right to amend bills (the right of amendment). They can only vote on them and either accept or reject them.
Furthermore, the members of Senate make much less use of the right to ask written questions than the members of the House of Representatives.
Finally, the House of Representatives has exercised its right to institute an inquiry on several occasions, particularly in recent years, whereas the Senate has to date never exercised this right.
So, now you know something about our Government, but what do we, the Dutch, think of our government because these are facts but the truth is, most of the Dutch people think that they know better how to rule the country because the people in the Hague are deciding stuff that we don’t agree with, .
Because we can vote who is getting the leadership doesn’t mean we always agree with what the government is deciding like we always have something to complain about. It doesn’t matter what it’s about. It can be about: Refugees, traditions (like black Pete), home care or pension. There is always something wrong. When we don’t agree with that kind of stuff we are going demonstrate and usually the police gets involved but that doesn’t matter because we fight back.
We do believe in the democracy though but we’re complaining about the politics.
Let’s talk some more about our ‘leader’ prime minister Mark Rutte. Mark rutte is currently single which is kinda ironic because he was born on valentines day, he is 48 now. On graduating in 1992, Mark Rutte joined Unilever, where he worked as a human resources manager and was responsible for staff training. Mr Rutte was also in charge of several reorganisations.
In 1997 Mr Rutte became personnel manager of Van den Bergh Nederland (Calvé), part of Unilever, where he also worked on a reorganisation. In 2002 he was appointed director of human resources at the IGLOMora Group BV, a Unilever subsidiary.
From 22 July 2002 to 17 June 2004 Mr Rutte was State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the first and second Balkenende governments. Between these governments he was a member of the House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from 30 January 2003 to 27 May 2003. From 17 June 2004 to 7 July 2006 he was State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the second Balkenende government.
From 29 June 2006 to 8 October 2010 Mark Rutte was the leader of the VVD parliamentary party.
From 14 October 2010 to 5 November 2012 Mr Rutte was Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs in the Rutte-Verhagen government.
On 5 November 2012 Mark Rutte was appointed Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs in the Rutte-Asscher government.
Our most famous politician is Geert Wilders, some people like to call him the Dutch Donald Trump, only Geert Wilders didn’t get a small loan of a million dollars. He is against the refugees and blames all the problems in the Netherlands on the refugees. He is saying that he isn’t against the Islam but I think that’s only because when he says he’s against the Islam or any other religion he is violating the constitution. Mr. Wilders is againt almost everything that has something to do with the Islam, which I don’t agree with because I think that people need to have the freedom to believe what they want to without people judging etc.