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Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 22 November 2023 to elect the members of the House of Representatives. [1] [2] The elections had been expected to be held in 2025, but a snap election was called after the fourth Rutte cabinet collapsed on 7 July 2023 due to disagreements on immigration policy between the coalition parties. [3]
The House of Representatives (Dutch: Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal [ˈtʋeːdə ˈkaːmər dɛr ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ɣeːnəˈraːl] ⓘ, literally "Second Chamber of the States General", or simply Tweede Kamer) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate.
On 14 December 2023, the House of Representatives of the Netherlands elected its Speaker for the 2023–2028 term. The election was held three weeks after the 2023 general election. Incumbent Speaker Vera Bergkamp retired from politics. Martin Bosma of the Party for Freedom was elected in the second round with 75 votes.
After Wybren van Haga was expelled from the VVD faction in 2019, the coalition lost its majority in the House of Representatives. [6] On 15 January 2021, two months before the election, the third Rutte cabinet resigned following a parliamentary inquiry into the Dutch childcare benefits scandal, and continued as a demissionary cabinet. [7] [8]
The 2023 Dutch general election resulted in losses for all parties in the fourth Rutte cabinet.The Party for Freedom (PVV) became the largest party in the House of Representatives for the first time and then formed a coalition with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), New Social Contract (NSC) and the Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB).
Wilders' party won 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament election, making it the biggest party and putting the veteran anti-Islam lawmaker in line to lead talks on forming ...
For the 22 November 2023 Dutch general election, 26 electoral lists were successfully submitted, totalling 1,126 candidates. [1]The 150 seats were awarded to party lists, with candidates over the preference threshold awarded a seat first if available and the other seats awarded based on position on the list.
Italy recently announced plans to house asylum seekers in Albania. In Germany, the center-left government and 16 state governors have agreed on a raft of measures to curb the high number of ...