I’m happy cause the second Balkenende government has finally fallen today as well - after the first had fallen in 2002 and there had been several threats from Democrats ‘66 (one of the parties on the government) of pulling the plug before. I must say the reason the government fell is a relatively unimportant issue, namely the problem with Dutch, conservative politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali possibly not being a Dutch citizen and the way she eventually retained her citizenship (she had to sign a form taking the blame for the citizenship problems that is actually with the integration minister). But basically I don’t care what the government fell over, the fact is that it fell and that I want elections, being a socialist and the government being conservative. There is still the possibility that the Christians and conservatives are going to continue governing without Democrats ‘66, but it’s a difficult political construct - it makes the parties dependent on the List Pim Fortuyn or another party for approval of their policy - and I don’t want it cause then they can still introduce new, bad, conservative laws. I just want them to resign, but it’s my personal view cause I hate the government anyway.
