Netherlands migration: Dutch coalition government collapses - reports
Netherlands migration: Dutch coalition government collapses - reports
The four-party coalition has collapsed because of disagreements about asylum policies - media reports.
It has been
1days since the last time Rutte's government collapsed.Another day, another Dutch government collapse
Bit weird how all major parties seems to agree that migration is a good thing but a large enough part of the electorate want to limit it.
Why the disconnect?
That's quite the oversimplification. VVD is in favour of labour migration, but generally somewhat opposed to asylum seekers. PVV is the largest opposition party and strongly opposed to all migration, as are JA21 and FvD. Among left wing parties it differs though there is generally opposition to the current labour migration system, while being in favour of offering asylum.
So I don't think it is right to say that "all major parties seem to agree that migration is a good thing." There are a number of parties with a significant number of seats opposed to various forms of migration. However, none have a majority at the moment.
My comment was more of a general statement, not so much about NL. From my understanding most mainstream parties, at least in the west, have a pretty favourable view on migration, but a not insignificant amount of the voters don't. Where I'm at the anti-immigration party is around the 20% mark, which is pretty high, but most other parties support it.
In the UK, Labour is pretty pro migration, and so is the Tories, even though the latter pay lip service to the racists for their votes.