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Prime minister breaks parliamentary record

Friday 13 November 2009

Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende was present in parliament for a record 17 hours between 10.15am Thursday and 3am on Friday, the Telegraaf reports.

The marathon sitting began with the debate on the cabinet's plans to increase the state pension age and ended with new legislation to speed up planning procedures.

MPs were angry last week when the prime minister refused to attend the pension debate scheduled for last Thursday. They agreed to postpone it until this week.

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well, would he have came at 8.30 to work would have broken even more. Does this talk about the quality or quantity?

By hehe | November 13, 2009 4:19 PM


Well, I recall spending 36h straight at work. Not impressed ;)

By sumone | November 16, 2009 6:43 AM


We need the average hours of sitting time and presence in the chambers of each sitting member, to see whom really works.

To be particular, what is the presence rate of the leader of the PVV?

By Solkhar | November 16, 2009 6:30 PM


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