Hibapress / Le Monde
A Secretary of State resigned after denouncing the racist remarks of some of her colleagues. The Prime Minister, Dick Schoof, denies this and tries to convince that his government has a future.
He wavered but did not fall: faced with the consequences of the crisis of violence which took place on Thursday, November 7, in Amsterdam, following the football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, the Dutch government narrowly avoided the fall on Friday November 15.
The Secretary of State for Finance, Nora Achahbar, member of the center-right New Social Contract (NSC) party, one of the four parties in the coalition led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof, had, during the day, announced her resignation. This lawyer of Moroccan origin, former lawyer then prosecutor, said she was shocked by the racist comments made by several of her colleagues during discussions on the events which shook the country’s capital.
Were the other ministers of the NSC also going to resign and, thus, cause a crisis, barely four and a half months after the entry into office of the coalition which also brings together the liberal party (VVD), the agrarian party BBB and the Party for Freedom (PVV), the far-right formation of Geert Wilders? Around 10 p.m., after a long discussion between the leaders of the four parties, the resignation of Ms. Achahbar was recorded but the coalition survived, the members of the New Social Contract deciding not to imitate their colleague.
