#dutch politics

[amidnightmoon]

Zijn we weer y’all

#nederlands #dutch #netherlands #government collapse part four #dutch politics

[nando161mando]

Greta Thunberg arrested by Dutch Police at a climate protest in the Hague

'Dutch police using controversial bokkepootje wrist bend on 4’11” Greta Thunberg for protesting climate collapse and genocide at The Hague'

#the hague #greta thunberg #dutch politics #dutch police #161 #1312 #all cops are bastards #climate protest #protest #genocide #class war #video #ftp #environmental activism #activism #activist #anti police #anti cop #fuck the police #fuck the cops #fuck the confederacy #fuck the idf #fuck the patriarchy #fuck the gop #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia

[seven-oomen]

For my followers not aware of what is happening in my country. Please spread awareness. Please share.

We're scared and feeling hopeless right now.

Especially communities like the LGBTQ community, refugees, immigrants, and the islamic community.

#dutch elections #geert wilders #dutch politics #tweede kamer verkiezingen

[allegedly-human-uwu]

#dutchposting #dutch politics #verkiezingen

[misspeppermint2003]

🇳🇱🇺🇸👨‍❤️‍👨 Rutte x Obama Gay Kiss Meme 👨‍❤️‍👨🇺🇸🇳🇱

Tonight, I'd just recently found this picture of Dutch PM Mark Rutte and 44th U.S. President Barack Obama kissing in the sky. Also, there's Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi at the beach in it, holding hands and looking at them up in a sky kissing.

This picture I found is originally from Bestweter.

Picture of Rutte and Obama kissing and Putin and Berlusconi holding hands and looking up in the sky at the beach from Bestweter - 4th September 2016

#mark rutte #barack obama #politicians #politics #lolitics #world leaders #dutch politics #american politics #european politics #memes #vladimir putin #silvio berlusconi #italian politics #russian politics #lgbt #gay fanarts #lgbt fanarts #gay ships #lgbt ships #gay kisses #lgbt kisses #gay couples #lgbt couples

[vogelmeister]

NO FEAR DUTCHBLR I MADE YOU GUYS A CRAB RAVE

#dutch politics #mark rutte #the Netherlands

[sugdenlovesdingle]

So according to the exit polls (based on people getting asked what they voted outside of polling stations) the PVV (partij voor de vrijheid/ party for freedom) WON the election.

it looks like they got THIRTY FIVE seats (out of 150), making them the largest party by far (the second largest is *thankfully* a left wing party with 26 seats) which (likely) means they'll be the party to name the new prime minister.

This is BAD.

They're not THE most right wing party, but it's close.

The leader had a crowd chant "minder, minder" (less, less) as an answer to the question "do you want more or less Moroccans in The Hague" a few years ago.

Referred to hijabs as "kopvodden" - "headrags"

Made a film on why Islam is bad

Has insulted Islam on more than one occasion

Wants to ban the Quran

Is a big supporter of the burka ban

Wants to close the borders

Wants to stop people who are granted asylum and can legally live here from bringing their family over here too

To the Americans - he was (is?) bffs with your republicans, that should tell you enough

this might be our new prime minister. I feel sick.

Now I know how all of the sane Americans felt when trump was elected!

#dutch politics #the netherlands #i hate this country

[sluttyfranzkafka]

FUCKING DESTROY THEM

#GET THEM #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #gazaunderattack #save gaza #gaza strip #gaza #social justice #human rights #amnesty international #genocide #the netherlands #dutch politics

[aquarianconstellations]

goedemorgen j'allemaal

#nedermemes #politiek #nederland #dutch politics #net letterlijk feestje gehad met gf om dit te vieren #op naar caroline I i guess

[self-sealing-stembolt]

I cope by making memes

#dutch politics #dutch stuff #tweede kamer #dutch gp 2023 #news #dumb memes #mijn zooi

[fireflowersims]

It's the Dutch national elections today!

And I'm working at the polls.

So, for y'all non-Dutch ppl here, this is what our ballots look like:

You vote for one specific candidate. The longests lists are from VVD and D66 and they consist of no less than 80 people.

Unfortunately I have no cat for reference scale but it's ginormous. I've seen a lot of ppl struggle with folding it.

So far the turnout has been great at my station and we haven't even hit the evening rush yet. The polls suggest more than 50% of voters are unsure who to vote for, so turnout is probably gonna go up by Quite A Bit as it gets dark.

Pssst, Nederlandse tumblrinas, hier een tip:

Ga stemmen!

#non-sims #politics #dutch politics #european politics #eu politics #netherlands #europe #elections #nederland #nederlands #dutch

[sixamese-simblr]

The Dutch public really went "fuck you, we're sick of the way your neoliberal free market economics have ruined our country for the past decade" and voted for the racism party instead

#ramblings #nonsims #dutch stuff #dutchposting #dutch politics

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

The Dutch political situation explained*

*to the best of my ability

So, our government collapsed last week and today our current prime minister has declared he will quit politics after the coming elections. So things have been happening and I thought, maybe some non-Dutch people saw some things in the news or on their dash and maybe some Dutch people who do not follow politics are also confused so it might be good to try and break it down. (And I'll try to stay objective)

Why did the government collapse?

That's a good question to start with actually. On the surface it's because they couldn't agree on a migration policy. The largest party, the VVD (right-wing, but if this was the USA it would be centre let's be real. Y'know what, see the figure of the Dutch political landscape at the bottom, they're right-wing but not conservative), which is also the party of the PM (Mark Rutte), apparently suddenly came with extra demands for how refugee families could be reunited and the Christen Unie (CU, a centre-left Christian party), the smallest party of the coalition, felt like they could not agree to these demands. The four coalition parties (others were D66, centre-progressive and CDA, centre-right Christian) are said to have together decided to let the government fall.

However, it is a weird thing to fall over, they have (had) much bigger crises and differences of opinion. These 4 parties have been together in the previous government as well and they almost finished their term, they fell over the Kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire (that is a real word) a few months before the elections were planned to happen. In short, the government had branded some innocent families as frauds, and demanded back a lot of money, resulting to them getting very large debts. Over the years it was discovered that non-white families were much more often targeted than white families and that the government had also known for years those families were innocent but tried to sweep it under the carpet.

All this to say that even though they resigned after all this was discovered, most politicians came back and it is actually still going on, the families are still not fully compensated. I can name about 4 more crisis that they should have dealt with but they (the VVD mostly) chose migration as the hill to die on. It was speculated to be a campaigning thing by Mark Rutte, but him resigning today seems to negate that.

Why is the PM resigning such a big deal?

Mark Rutte has been our longest serving PM ever. He has been PM since 2010, this was his 4th government. This means he’s about the only PM children and many young adults have known (I can personally only vaguely remember the previous PM and no idea who was PM before him). This also means our politics of the last 10 years have been dominated by the VVD. Because there have been many scandals during the years many people were totally done with the VVD and Mark Rutte. However we also knew what he was like.

I personally think the VVD has been getting a lot of votes the past years because some people liked Mark Rutte as PM and all those people will have to figure out who to vote for now. It is quite a weird idea to me that we will actually get a new PM, and a bit scary because while I didn't like Rutte, it could definitely have been worse.

So what about the coming elections?

There are more parties looking for a new leader. The current leader of the CDA has also said he’ll quit and it is unclear what the leader of D66 will do. The two largest left-wing parties, PvdA and GroenLinks have been working together more and more the past few years and they want to do the coming elections as one team, but their members first have to vote on the plans and if they agree it is unclear who will lead this. However, as you can see below, we have quite a lot of left-wing parties, which as a result are none of all very big, so it might be interesting to see what will happen if there’s suddenly one big party to vote for.

And then there are 2 other factors. Firstly, the BBB (right-wing, farmers’ party) became the largest during the provincial elections last year, while the coalition parties lost. Will people also vote for them during the national elections? And if they become the largest who will they be willing to work with in the government?

The last factor can be really important or be absolutely nothing. There’s this guy called Pieter Omtzigt, he was a member of the CDA, but they fought within the party and he decided to become independent. Now, he is quite popular, during the last election he alone got enough votes to theoretically fill 5 seats in parliament, and became well known because he was one of the main politicians trying to figure out the truth behind the Kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire (there it is again). However, it is completely unknown what he will do, will he stay in politics? Will he start his own party? (He doesn’t have much time for that anymore.) Will he join another party? (The BBB? Update: He said he will not join BBB) We have no idea, but if he decides to stay in politics it can become very interesting.

And this was my break-down of current Dutch politics. I hope it cleared some things up for some people. The main point is that everything is quite insecure right now and that it will take a while before we get a better picture, with the politicians all firstly going on holiday, it might take a while until we'll know when the elections are going to be and who we will be able to vote for.

#it was also nice for me to put everything down #though I did curse my decision to do it in english because these are not topics i usually discuss in english #also isn't it nice to write about the main players in current dutch politics and not mention the pvv or fvd even once I loved it #dutch politics #dutch #the netherlands #I made on original post #politics

[murky-galaxy]

#dutch politics #politiek #Nederland #politics #yes i am very tired can you tell? #so many things they could have fallen over and really take a stance on something and this is the one that does it? #it's just a gross political game at this point #nevermind the actual housing/energy/environmental/Groningen crises #I'm sure im forgetting some #and like we're just going to either get the same parties again or something even further right wing #while of course not getting anywhere on solving these issues #very tired #posts from a murky galaxy #rutte #rutte iv

[tsuyu-season]

Fellow Dutchies, celebrate the stabbing of Caesar appropriately this year by going to vote for Provinciale Staten and Waterschappen!!! Participate in democracy!!

#ides of march #dutch politics #I'm serious tho #go vote #Provinciale Staten is moeilijk te begrijpen ja want het is geen landelijk of lokale gemeente. maar het is wel belangrijk #en waterschappen is ook zo zo zooooo belangrijk #Ga stemmen!!! #Het moeilijkst te begrijpen ergens #maar van zulk groot belang! #dutch

[lezzian]

the truth is obviously that this country has always been deeply, unanimously racist and never recovered from or made amends with its colonial past and current colonial/imperial relations. racism is truly entrenched in Dutch culture to a degree where it's not even a case of not wanting to see it but being completely unable to (i'm reminded of anne stoler's concept of "colonial aphasia" as well as gloria wekker's work). if they are politically engaged at all, it takes years for white Dutch people to see & name racism and consider anti-racism in their politics. and the fact that the overwhelming majority of left-leaning people are shocked to see these election results is really just an indictment of how unaware and unengaged the left is here in anti-racism and anti-colonialism.

#mission report #politics #dutch politics #the netherlands