Prime Minister Netherlands Mark Rutte announced the departure from politics

Prime Minister Netherlands Mark Rutte said that he would not put forward his candidacy for the post of head of government for the fifth term and leave the policy after early elections. It is reported by Reuters.

In addition, Rutte will leave the post of leader of the "People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy." She was leading in the government coalition.

On July 8, the Government of the Netherlands broke up, since it could not reach an agreement to restrict immigration.

The current coalition will still remain as a temporary government and will not be able to make decisions on new policy. Parliamentary elections will be approximately in November 2023.

Mark Rutte 56 years old. He took the position of prime minister in 2010. For 13 years, Rutta headed four governments and remains the acting prime minister before the elections. It was expected that the politician would again lead his party in the elections.

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands several times offered high international positions in NATO and the EU, but he called the post of head of government "the best work in the world." At the same time, Rutte never said that he wanted to leave politics, Reuters notes.

• The Conservative Party Rutte sought to tighten the conditions for the provision of asylum in the country. The Party of Christian Democrats also spoke for more stringent measures. Two other participants in the ruling coalition - "Democrats 66" and "Christian Union" - did not agree with the tightening of immigration policy. Disagreements caused the collapse of the coalition.

• In 2022, the number of applications for the provision of asylum in the Netherlands increased by a third and exceeded 46 thousand, and almost half of them fell on the inhabitants of European countries. According to the forecasts of the authorities, this year the number of applications can reach 70 thousand. Among other things, the influx of refugees creates a load on a housing stock, which is already small for densely populated Netherlands.

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