He hesitated but did not fall: faced with the consequences of the crisis of violence that took place on Thursday, November 7 in Amsterdam, after the soccer match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, the Dutch government narrowly avoided the fall of Friday November. 15.
The Secretary of State for Finance, Nora Achahbar, a member of the center-right New Social Contract (NSC) party, one of the four parties in the coalition led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof, announced her resignation during the day. This lawyer of Moroccan origin, former lawyer and then prosecutor, declared herself shocked by the racist comments made by several of her colleagues during discussions about the events that shook the country’s capital.
Were the other NSC ministers also going to resign and thus provoke a crisis, barely four and a half months after the coalition that also brings together the liberal party (VVD), the agrarian party BBB and the Party for the Libertad (PVV), the far-right formation of Geert Wilders? Around 10:00 p.m., after a long discussion between the leaders of the four parties, the resignation of Mme Achahbar was approved, but the coalition survived and the members of the New Social Contract decided not to imitate their colleague.
“Polarization”
Although he explained, in a letter to the deputies, that “the polarization of society [néerlandaise] threatens the bond between people » and ensures that “Others are seen as adversaries, not as peers”. An allusion to Mr Wilders’ comments on the events in Amsterdam, but also to the public speeches of other officials.
On Monday, November 11, the Minister of Finance, Eelco Heinen, would have estimated that the perpetrators of the violence in Amsterdam were “the worst of society”. But, according to certain sources in The Hague, this liberal official actually wanted to mention anti-Semitism to judge that this problem could not be resolved as such. “a button that is pressed to expel pus.”
Jurgen Nobel, another liberal member of the government, Secretary of State for Participation and Integration, considered that the country was facing “a very big integration problem” young muslims who “a very large number of them do not respect the norms and values to which we subscribe”.
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