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NETHERLANDSCoalition Cabinet collapses The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix met with parliamentary faction leaders July 1 after the fall of the Dutch government to discuss prospects for reviving a minority Cabinet that could pass a budget due in September and oversee the deployment of troops to Afghanistan before holding new elections in December. The alternative would be an immediate election campaign, with the vote in September. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's government crumbled June 29 after his coalition's smallest member, the centrist D-66 Party, said it could no longer work with hard-line Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, who had threatened to revoke the passport of Somali-born lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali in May for lying on her 1992 application for asylum, but later reversed her decision.
The Japan Times Weekly: July 8, 2006 |
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