Mr Rutte last Friday handed in the resignation of his fourth Cabinet. Read more at straitstimes.com.
AMSTERDAM - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday said he won’t run for a fifth term in office and will leave Dutch politics following elections in November.failing to reach agreement on stricter immigration policies.
“In recent days, there’s been a lot of speculation about what motivated me. The only answer is the Netherlands,” he said in a speech in Parliament before a debate on the collapse of the government. “Yesterday morning, I made the decision that I will not again be available as leader of the VVD . Once the new Cabinet is formed after the elections, I will leave politics.”
Mr Rutte’s decision will mark the end of his run as the longest-serving government leader in Dutch history. He took over as prime minister in October 2010. Mr Rutte, 56, will stay on as leader of a caretaker government until a new administration is formed after the next elections, a process which usually takes months in the fractured Dutch political landscape. REUTERS
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