Dutch Government resigns

thinkingdifferentthinkingdifferent
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
<a href="http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/16/netherlands.resign/index.html"; target="_blank">Dutch resigns</a>



Has the whole government resigned or just the Prime Minister?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    I saw that on the news last night. I thought it was odd when they said the government resigned. Maybe the whole administration?
  • Reply 2 of 7
    fukuhelafukuhela Posts: 31member
    Has the whole government resigned or just the Prime Minister?



    It's the whole government. Every one og them.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    sdw2001sdw2001 Posts: 18,016member
    It is the whole cabinet. All I can say about this one is:



    "Biggest Resignation Ever".
  • Reply 4 of 7
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    It's symbolic, elections are upcoming very soon.



    They're essentially starting their vacations early and will use their moral act to get themselves reelected a month from now.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Nah.... people in Europe don't pull those shenanagins... they do stuff by the book!
  • Reply 6 of 7
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Actually its very common in Europe to resign on issues like that. In 92 our government resigned when it became clear that it had slowed down the handling of reunion of a number of Tamil refugees with their families deliberatly. Actually it was only the minister of justice that had done anything wrong but also the prime took the consequence and resigned and with him all ministers.



    It took them nine years to seize the power again...
  • Reply 7 of 7
    fukuhelafukuhela Posts: 31member
    [quote]Originally posted by groverat:

    <strong>It's symbolic, elections are upcoming very soon.



    They're essentially starting their vacations early and will use their moral act to get themselves reelected a month from now.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's true that the election is upcoming. But when you as a government resign and admit that it were their fault, then you don't expect to be reelected.



    They have practially admitted that they were responsible to the death of 8000 people. Try to be reelected after that <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Sign In or Register to comment.