P.Netherlands.- AMP.-The Government of the Netherlands is reduced to two parties after discrepancies in the measures against Israel

MADRID, 22 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Caspar Veldkamp, ​​announced this Friday his resignation from office after verifying that the discrepancies within the Government coalition to impose new sanctions against Israel are now insurmountable, which has also triggered the departure of all the representatives of the New Social Contract (NSC) from the Executive.

Veldkamp promised on Thursday before Parliament the adoption of punishments in retaliation for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, but this Friday he was able to confirm in a meeting that not all ministers are willing to do so.

After verifying this “resistance”, the minister has announced that he will present his resignation. “I don't trust that things will change and my margin of action is limited,” he said in statements to the media reported by state television NOS.

The movement has not stopped there and the leader of the NSC and deputy prime minister, Eddy Van Hijum, has also announced that all members of the party with representation in the first or second line of the cabinet would follow the same path as Veldkamp, ​​which leaves the Interior, Education and Health portfolios vacant.

The Dutch Government has been in office since June, after the departure of Geert Wilders' far-right Freedom Party (PVV) left a bloc that had been reduced to three parties until now without a majority. In addition to the NSC, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the Peasant-Citizen Movement (BBB) ​​are part of the coalition.