The committees of the House of Representatives will inventory which topics they do not want to address in the period until a new cabinet is formed during the week of June 16. In procedural meetings on June 17, 18, and 19, they will compile lists of topics they want to declare controversial.
The Schoof cabinet submitted its resignation to the King on Tuesday, June 3. Until a new cabinet takes office, the ministers will only address ongoing matters in principle. Exceptions are possible. The House of Representatives determines what is addressed and what is not. Topics that the House does not want to address are declared controversial.
Procedure for Declaring Controversial
The procedure for declaring controversial begins with the committees of the House. In extra procedural meetings they compile a list of topics. It concerns not only legislation but also letters and notes from the cabinet. The lists from the committees are collected on the voting list. The House is expected to vote plenarily on the list in the week of June 23. After that, the list of declared controversial topics will be published on this website.
Follow Live
The procedural meetings are public, you can follow them live via the livestream and External link:Debate Direct. Once the times of the meetings are known, the livestreams will be published in this message.
List May Change
The list of declared controversial topics may change. Committees and factions can propose new topics, and the reverse can also happen: a committee can propose to address a previously declared controversial topic. In that case, the committee sends a letter to the Speaker of the House. The House then votes on that letter.
Declaration and Debate
- Read more about the declaration of controversial topics.
- Watch the declaration of Schoof and the subsequent debate from June 3 via Debate Direct (External link:declaration and External link:debate). The meeting was also followed with a sign language interpreter (External link:declaration and External link:debate).
- Read the letter from Prime Minister Dick Schoof about the resignation of the cabinet.
- Read a summary of the debate via Debate in Brief.