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Cohen gone, who will be Amsterdam mayor?Monday 15 March 2010 The names of home affairs minister Guusje ter Horst and integration minister Eberhard van der Laan are among the most often mentioned as possible candidates to succeed Job Cohen as Amsterdam mayor. Cohen resigned on Friday in order to concentrate on becoming leader of the Labour party following Wouter Bos's surprise decision to step down. His shoes are currently being filled by Lodewijk Asscher, leader of the local Labour party. Ter Horst was mayor of Nijmegen before joining the cabinet and would be the capital's first female mayor. According to the Parool, she has said she would be interested in the job, if there is wide enough support for her. In addition, he was asked to take on the formation process by Asscher, who knew Cohen was leaving, the paper states. GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema has denied she is interested in the job, and her predecessor Paul Rosenmöller has also been mentioned. Mayors are technically crown appointees, based on the advice of the cabinet. But the cabinet is currently acting in a caretaker capacity and it is unclear what the constitutional position is, the Volkskrant points out. 'There is no precedent to deal with this,' former constitutional law professor Jan Vis told the paper. 'As far as I am aware there has never been a situation in which the capital city is without a proper mayor and the country without a proper cabinet.' © DutchNews.nl
the city center looks and feels like a bombed out city, maybe the new mayor can carry on that wonderful tradition. If this man Cohen had ANYTHING to do with pushing the north/south line he should leave politics, not get a promotion...I heard he is in the hands of the developers as he as demonstrated in his decisions as mayor....so good luck Netherlands. By alanposting | March 15, 2010 10:54 AM well post, do you recall the local elections held a couple of weeks ago? By mike b | March 15, 2010 1:18 PM Sweet. Job Cohen is gone. Can Amsterdam just go back to being Amsterdam again. Probably not but we can but hope. By langer | March 15, 2010 1:29 PM Mayors are arbitrary appointments from the political old boy network in NL. They are all amateurs and get the job either as a place to wait in the wings till bigger things offer themselves, or to be put out to pasture or to keep them quiet or just because they have influential friends. It is not intended that mayors actually do anything to benefit their communities and the communities have no say in who their mayor is. The job pays well and has no responsibilities beyond submitting expense claims. By Vogon Poet | March 15, 2010 3:07 PM We all think we live in a democracy... but we don't! Too many political offices are seen as too sensitive to be left to the people to decide who their leaders should be. I vote to be rid of this constitutional monarchy whose ambition is only to keep the status quot. By Buzzer | March 15, 2010 6:20 PM Yes mike b, I voted in those elections, but I did not see Job's name on the list I filled in. So we will now get another lazy dictator who is in the pocket of the developers, more renovations will only be bid on by one contractor and will take 15 years, more projects will go twice over budget, nothing will be done to make Amsterdam a better city for the people who live in it. By post | March 16, 2010 10:07 AM ok then post, but you will have seen PVdA on the list which i'm sure you realise has Job as its leader. that's kinda how elections tend to work, you vote for a party and they decide who is their leader. or am i taking crazy pills? By mike b | March 18, 2010 8:04 AM
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Of course, the idea that we, the people of Amsterdam, might have some sort of say in this is far too radical. So we'll get another lazy dictator who does nothing to improve the city, because he only has his eyes on Den Haag. We deserve better.
By post | March 15, 2010 9:53 AM