Former minister of agriculture Cees Veerman (CDA) advocates breaking open the coalition agreement on nitrogen policy. “I think that after an election result like this, a real landslide, you should sit around the table again as a cabinet. Start negotiations again on the most difficult points and that is the nitrogen policy,” says the CDA man in Sven on 1.
After the great loss of the CDA, the former minister of agriculture speaks critically of his party: “I think that the CDA should never have agreed to the nitrogen agreements that the cabinet has in the coalition agreement. (…) That agreement of 2030 is an agreement between parties in this cabinet and I have always found it much too tight.”
Tomorrow there will be a top meeting where, among other things, the position of party leader Hoekstra will be discussed. Veerman: “He has to think for himself. It can also be too much on the plate. If things don’t go well, you also have to face a substitution. Let’s see wisely what we have to do. If the trust is not there, you have to leave”.
Veerman expects that the cabinet will not have a long life and there is a good chance that it will fall before the summer. According to the CDA celebrity, the focus in subsequent parliamentary elections should be on young people within the party. “A Henri Bontenbal or Derk Boswijk should be given a prominent role in this. It’s all hands on deck.”
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