Jul 10, 2023 – 11:23 AM
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the latest European Council summit, 30 June 2023 – Photo: Council of Europe
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced in Parliament on Monday that he will retire from politics and hand over the leadership of his party, a Dutch newspaper reported. married. At the helm of the conservative liberal Free People’s Democratic Party (VVD), he has been in power as prime minister since 2010 – only Viktor Orban has held the position in an EU member state for longer than him. in the history of the Netherlands There was no one In power longer than Mark Rutte.
The Dutch government collapsed on Friday after several days of negotiations that failed to reach an agreement on the treatment of asylum seekers. Immigration policy has been discussed within the coalition for several months. The VVD and the Christian Democratic Party both called for restrictions to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in the Netherlands, while the left-wing Liberal Democratic Party 66 and the Christian Union party rejected it.
As we wrote about during his last election, 56-year-old Mark Rutte goes everywhere by bike, to this day on an old Nokia. He writes His text messages, and not only is he not married, but he’s also allegedly never been in a relationship – because he claims he never had time for that. politicalIn the name of Teflon MarkHe was also mentioned because problematic issues almost bounced back from him.
The liberal politician has repeatedly come into conflict with Viktor Orban. Perhaps the most memorable case was in 2020, when the Hungarian prime minister refused to even mention the name of his Dutch colleague after a discussion about the EU budget.
“If the deal doesn’t go through, it won’t be because of me, it will be because of the Dutchman.”
– He said Victor Urban. “I don’t like pointing fingers, but the Dutchman is responsible for the turmoil we are seeing now.”
A few months later, Mark Rutte stated in a Dutch parliamentary debate that he was glad he didn’t look like “that guy”, referring to Viktor Orban.
In 2021, Peter Szijjarto called Mark Rutte a Hungarian after the Dutch prime minister said that, in his opinion, Hungary no longer had a place in the European Union.
