Voting begins today in a Dutch general election that follows a major government scandal and strict deadlock conditions that led to serious disorder.
The Guardian’s European correspondent, Jon Henley, explain Anushka asthana that the Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government resigned en masse in January after admitting to failing tens of thousands of citizens he had wrongly accused of cheating the child benefit system. A parliamentary report described how people from ethnic minorities were particularly selected and issued with the demand for the return of tens of thousands of euros.
But despite this scandal and a strict second blockade, pre-election polls show little appetite among voters for a radical change of government. Rutte, who remained as a councilor after the cabinet resigned, is expected to continue in office in any new coalition.
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