Overview
- VVD’s Thom van Campen won the Dutch House speakership in a third round with 79 votes to Martin Bosma’s 69, becoming the youngest presiding officer.
- Outgoing chair Martin Bosma called the loss a major disappointment but will stay on as an MP, while Tom van der Lee was eliminated in round two and his bloc later backed Van Campen.
- D66 and CDA are running rapid expert sessions on asylum and migration, housing and nitrogen, aiming to make substantive choices within roughly three weeks.
- State commission chair Richard van Zwol advised keeping the spreidingswet that allocates asylum seekers across municipalities and cautioned that previous efforts gave too little attention to execution.
- Positions on the spreidingswet diverge among potential partners, with D66 and CDA favoring retention, JA21 seeking repeal, the VVD voting differently across chambers, and GroenLinks-PvdA supportive.