Re: Netherlands "NethExit" ?
Originally Posted by
Solasch
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Simple. We have elections every 4 years. But better still, our civil servants, hard working officials who remain for decades on their posts, make for that stable course of our government.
I've heard everything now! What your Government did by legislating such a move, was to take a bite out of Dutch democracy.
In almost every article written about your Government's decision to ban referendums was its fear that by retaining them, one could eventually be used for the Netherlands to vote to leave the EU with a ''Nexus'.
Before the freedom was snatched away from them, since 2015 you previously had to have a minimum of 300,000 voters call for an advisory referendum and more than 30% turnout for one to take place The problem arose when the decisions made in these referendums were counter-productive to your Government's wishes, hence, when your new Dutch coalition government of the VVD, CDA and ChristenUnie and the D66 took office in 2017, priority was to get rid of them as soon as possible.
Rutte is renowned for his hatred of referendums, and was instrumental in the move to ban them completely, even though it was one of the coalition partners, D66 themselves who first brought in the referendum legislation a few years earlier with the 300,000 votes and 30% turnout rule in 2015.
So please, why do you insist that the whole of the Netherlands does not need referendums because the people trust the government to make the right decisions! The people had no say in it at all.