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The Affordable Rent Act, with which outgoing Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge plans to regulate mid-market rentals in the private sector, will have adverse side effects for people with low incomes and those starting on the housing market - young people, immigrants, and divorces.
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One week before the parliamentary election, the leaders of the four largest parties in the polls - NSC, VVD, GroenLinks-PvdA, and PVV - debated migration, dental care, and healthcare in a debate on SBS6 on Wednesday. In a separate debate in The Hague, candidates of the VVD and CDA faced fire over the Netherlands still providing Israel with parts for their F-35 fighter jets used to bomb Gaza.
There will be no debate this week in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, regarding the situation in Gaza. SP and D66’s call for a debate did not garner enough support. This call was triggered by the caretaker Cabinet's decision to abstain from voting on a UN resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
VVD parliamentarian Ruben Brekelmans received criticism in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, in the debate on the asylum seeker distribution law. Former coalition partners D66, CDA, and ChristenUnie (CU), in particular, strongly criticized the VVD’s backpedaling after the fall of the Cabinet in early July. The VVD is now strongly against the distribution law, while the Liberals supported it until July.