The fourth resurrection of Mark Rutte

• Netherlands Mark Rutte dodges his worst scandal and establishes himself as' Mr.

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Mark Rutte successfully overcomes all challenges. And with him survives his hitherto Finance Minister

. Or the one who was his foreign minister, Sigrid Kaag, who has debated all year between allying with him or keeping his distance. In the end, he ended up seeing the wolf's ears: the center-right did not accept his conditions of including the left in the government, reaching an agreement seemed an impossible mission, an electoral repetition was looming in which he could lose and more after having to resign over chaotic evacuation mission from Afghanistan in summer.

Kaag, at the head of a pro-European party that with some will could balance the balance towards southern Europe, ended up giving in and accepting that the fourth ally of the future Dutch government will once again be the

, whom he already had from partners, along with Rutte and Hoekstra, since 2017. And that he tried to veto them several times and vowed not to want to ally with them again so as not to renounce the bills of his party, the left-wing D66 liberals, who want to adopt measures of medical ethics without the censorship of Christians.

Liberals VVD (Rutte), Christian Democrats CDA (de Hoekstra), socioliberals D66 (Kaag) and Unión Cristiana CU ruled for four years, until they resigned in full in January to take responsibility for one of the most shocking scandals in the world. Holland: the unfounded accusations of fraud, from the hand of the Treasury Administration, to thousands of parents who had asked for help to cover the expenses of childcare and childcare.

This situation forced them to face financial, psychological and family problems. Hacienda had allowed the algorithms to

based on their dual nationality. The scandal was such that Rutte's political future depended on a child, but in the end he not only won the election again, he did so with broader representation for the Liberals, and the coalition he had been leading won more seats in total of the tight majority that it had until March of this year.

But the unanimity of that coalition evaporated soon after. A blunder by Rutte in April, after the elections, put him between a rock and a hard place for days. He had lied to Congress and the media about his attempt to place a controversial deputy in a position that would keep him away from his parliamentary seat, the same seat he had used in previous years to criticize and reproach Rutte for treating families with children. which then blew up in his face in January. Rutte wanted

, from the same party as Hoekstra, entertained with other matters less annoying than the defense of dual citizenship families.

A part of Congress put a vote of no confidence in Rutte in April that did not achieve a sufficient majority to dictate the end of his career. It was thanks to Kaag and Hoekstra, who decided to save him with a motion of disapproval that achieved sufficient support. With this last motion, it was left to Rutte to leave through the back door, or fight to regain the trust of his partners and lead them in yet another legislature. "Here our paths part," Kaag pointed out. "Too much has happened," added

(CU), who said she did not want to be in a government led by Rutte. But he chose to stay: his life is politics. Nobody imagines him, for now, in another position beyond Torentje, the prime minister's office. There are also no viable alternatives in the Netherlands.

A sum of miscalculations and fortuitous circumstances brought the dialogue to a standstill and allowed Rutte to prolong the agony for so many months that all his associates fell along the way. Kaag resigned over evacuations from Afghanistan, and Hoekstra's name appeared on Pandora's papers as an investor in a Virgin Islands-based shell company. In the end, they all had dirty laundry in sight and little room for maneuver. Kaag gave up his goal of forming a coalition with the Social Democrats and the Greens, Hoekstra bowed his head and in October, the same old men began to negotiate a new coalition agreement that will finally be known this Wednesday, nine months later.

These same parties have already spent almost a year in an interim government, most of the time trying to

each other: united in the councils of ministers, and glancing sideways at the negotiating table. The funny thing is that there is hardly any disagreement on the content of a government agreement, including the climate issue, the housing shortage and the economic recovery. The problem was more the statements to the press made by a party, the report published by another medium or the critical column of a national newspaper: the newspapers were thrown at the head, agreeing on the merits of the issue. Until this week.

It is not yet known who will occupy the 20 ministries that will be in the next legislature, but Hoekstra does not seem to want to continue to lead Finance and this ministry could pass into the hands of the pro-Europeans of D66.

All of this will be negotiated at Christmas, when Rutte assumes the role of forming a government.

What is now in the Netherlands is a great rush to have a cabinet that can govern beyond imposing restrictions: problems pile up and society loses patience.

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