Chaos in the House of Representatives: ‘Emergency laws can wait a little longer’ | Inland

A meeting in which the House of Representatives discusses the planning went chaotic. The ChristenUnie was too late, after which committee chairman Attje Kuiken determined that there was a majority to declare one of the laws controversial.

That would mean that the House will only consider the law once a new cabinet is in place. But apart from the fact that the cabinet is missionary on the subject of corona, Kuiken turned out to have counted wrong. The bill, for expanding the corona admission ticket in the workplace, will eventually be discussed together with the two other proposals.

Ten years to deal with a law

That will happen next week at the earliest, unless the House then determines that even more time is needed. In any case, the opposition parties in particular are very unhappy with the flash – by parliamentary standards – in which they have to deal with three laws. “We used to take ten years to discuss a law,” said PVV MP Fleur Agema.

“Politicians are often accused of acting too slowly in this pandemic,” said Jan Paternotte (D66). “I don’t think we should spend a month on these bills.”

Former CDA member Pieter Omtzigt was angry that his vote as a splitter in the planning meeting did not count. He thought it was an ‘offense’ of his voters.

3 december

Theoretically, however, the laws could still be in time for December 3, when the cabinet would determine whether the current half lockdown is sufficient to reduce the infections sufficiently.

The more targeted measures, such as expanding the corona pass and 2G, should be a replacement.

On Monday, Prime Minister Rutte and health care minister De Jonge already hinted that the current measures will be stepped up rather than relaxed. On Wednesday, the cabinet will again look at whether a turnaround is in sight and will probably determine whether a press conference should be held earlier than December 3 to announce stricter ‘lockdown-like’ measures.

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