Dutch PM lashes out at left-wing parties at campaign event
1 year, 9 months ago

Dutch PM lashes out at left-wing parties at campaign event

NL Times  

Dutch Prime Minister and VVD leader Mark Rutte again warned against voting for the left-wing opposition parties during a campaign kick-off event ahead of the Provincial Council elections in Dordrecht. Rutte compared political parties GroenLinks and PvdA to a “left cloud,” and said, "The smaller they get, the better it will be." Rutte said he finds it "totally unacceptable" that, in his view, the left-wing parties "want to let the perpetrators get off with community service in the event of violence against these people. Rutte firmly said he does not need the two left-wing parties for this, "because they get in the way.

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