{"id":5222,"date":"2017-10-29T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2017-10-29T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:08:36","slug":"the-netherlands-has-a-new-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-netherlands-has-a-new-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands Has a New Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months after the election, the new Dutch cabinet has been sworn in. The negotiation talks between the different political parties lasted longer than expected, but, the work can finally begin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5223\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dvdhPX\" aria-label=\"8206857549 8755457d5e Z 350x249\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5223\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5223\"  alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"249\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/10\/8206857549_8755457d5e_z-350x249.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/10\/8206857549_8755457d5e_z-350x249.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/10\/8206857549_8755457d5e_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ferdi De Gier found on Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday morning, the new cabinet, nicknamed Rutte III in the news, met with King Willem-Alexander. The new\u00a0<em>kabinet<\/em> is comprised of 10 women and 14 men from four different parties which are VVD, CDA, D66 and ChristenUnie.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some criticism that the cabinet is <em>homogeen\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0homogeneous with a majority of men, only one MP who was born outside the Netherlands (in Croatia), and only one dual citizen MP who is also the only openly gay politician to be appointed.<\/p>\n<p>This article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.nl\/op-het-bordes-alle-ministers-van-het-kabinet-rutte-iii-onthoud-deze-namen\/\">Business Insider<\/a> gives you a list of the new MP&#8217;s in Dutch, and this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/archives\/2017\/10\/the-new-cabinet-is-sworn-in-16-ministers-pose-with-the-king\/\">DutchNews.nl<\/a> gives you the list in English.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Premier Mark Rutte introduced each minister to the King. You can see the ceremony in this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BE\u00cbDIGING: Het nieuwe kabinet Rutte III is door de koning beedigd\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FsalA_1w2ho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After introductions, the ministers took the traditional\u00a0<em>bordesfoto<\/em> outside the King&#8217;s offices in The Hague. The photo has been everywhere in the news with commentary about the experience of the politicians, the cost of the name changes of several positions, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/nos.nl\/artikel\/2199885-ophef-over-de-witte-schoenen-van-minister-de-jonge-op-het-bordes.html\">shoes of minister De Jong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BORDESVIDEO: De koning en de ministers van het nieuwe kabinet Rutte III op de trappen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RlxAHJEeudU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although there is already some division between the parties who were left out of the coalition, there is some hope that this year&#8217;s more politically diverse group will be more successful!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the Rutte III cabinet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/10\/8206857549_8755457d5e_z-350x249.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/10\/8206857549_8755457d5e_z-350x249.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/10\/8206857549_8755457d5e_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Seven months after the election, the new Dutch cabinet has been sworn in. The negotiation talks between the different political parties lasted longer than expected, but, the work can finally begin. On Thursday morning, the new cabinet, nicknamed Rutte III in the news, met with King Willem-Alexander. The new\u00a0kabinet is comprised of 10 women and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-netherlands-has-a-new-cabinet\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[27714],"tags":[3608,358723,358738,10149,122,9279],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","tag-dutch","tag-dutch-government","tag-dutch-politics","tag-netherlands","tag-politics","tag-prime-minister"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}