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Election: Rutte 'best qualified' to be prime minister

Monday 10 September 2012

Just over half the Dutch believe caretaker prime minister and VVD leader Mark Rutte has the best leadership qualities of the main party leaders, although 45% have confidence in him as prime minister.

Labour leader Diederik Samsom gets 41% of the vote in terms of his leadership skills and 37% have most confidence in him as prime minister, a TNS Nipo poll for the Volkskrant shows.

The research also shows Rutte’s image has been dented by the accusations of lying which have dogged him during the campaign.

Recent opinion polls say both the right-wing VVD and Labour are on target to win 35 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament in Wednesday's vote.

Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer is considered the nicest leader.

Who do you consider to be the best prime minister? Have your say using the comment box below

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Readers' Comments

yet another scam to get rutte across.

i am starting to believe for each party there is a poll institute too

Samsom rulz

By dork | 10 September 2012 8:02 AM

I prefer Samson myself. Rutte, the VVD and his ideas are very similar to the Republican ideology in the USA, which I find to be great, if you are already stinking rich and have everything you need. Unfortunately few people outside of my direct circle of white well-educated friends are actually in that luxurious position so I will vote for these less fortunate folks. Why would I continue to vote for myself when I already have everything I need or want? What kind of world is that?
Think about that before you vote on Wednesday please.

By Bill | 10 September 2012 9:42 AM

Wilders should be PM.The other possible candidates are all part of the same globalist, EU-friendly, multi-cultural elite.

By Jens | 10 September 2012 2:13 PM

Jens, this is a news site for non-Dutch. Why would we vote against our own interests??

Are you trying to tell us to leave? Sorry...I'm sticking around, even if just because it would annoy you so much. ;)

By CW | 10 September 2012 2:42 PM

Silly Jens: without Europe, the Netherlands would be worse off financially than Greece! The multinationals would leave here in droves shedding tens of thousands of jobs, throwing native-blond-Dutch office staff and management onto a WW uitkering that will be paid in a worthless currency. Your cash-cow customers (Germany) wouldn't trade with you. You couldn't import things either as nobody would accept the guilder: your supermarkets would be empty, your diet would be stampot and whatever else you could grow here (no rice, no exotic fruits like bananas) - and you'd all work the fields yourselves because the Poles/MOEs wouldn't touch you.

That should scare you and your blond messiah far more than the hijab-wearing family who you now call buren...

By osita | 10 September 2012 5:13 PM

Yes I agree, Rutte is the best one for the job, he has the best acting skills, but please don't ask me my opinion on his agenda & concern for the Dutch people..I don't like to use bad language here. :P

By The visitor | 11 September 2012 3:31 AM

@Osita Well said. ironically, most of these people who want to get out of Europe are also the ones who got rich because of it. House prices here doubled overnight when the Euro was introduced. Sellers just replaced the currency signs on their prices instead of converting the value. These sour little folk now want to get out of the euro, but are not prepared to go back to the pre-euro level of house prices.

By Fatality | 11 September 2012 8:07 AM

@Osita ,that's exactly why i vote with that blonde guy and his friends ( including rutte *geen hoofdletter*),i lost my hope,sorry.

By Niemand | 11 September 2012 8:23 AM

I can't vote, but I suggest people to vote for PvDa->Samsom. We are already being pinned down by vvd anti-immigration/foreigner politic. It's being much harder to stay even for me as an educated person. For example, they recently passed a law that your partner can get a permit after 1 year. Seriously, who does that? For example, a researcher with Ph.D. or master degrees should be forced to live without his/her wife/husband and children for 1 year because of this stupid law?

By Amir | 11 September 2012 9:10 AM

I agree with Jens. Although I am immigrant myself, I do not like this "multi-cultural" approach of socialists. If you want to live in the Netherlands, you have to study Dutch and to integrate. If someone does not want to integrate, why he/she is here?

By Anton | 11 September 2012 11:43 AM

@ Osita: Wow what an incredibly non-scary and badly thought-out argument, -well done. ou seem to forget that the country somehow managed to get by before the EU and economic immigration for several hundered years, -and things were a lot better in fact. The Netherlands has always had a strong economy based on hard work and smart trade. You just seem to have an issue with the Dutch in general. Maybe you should try a differant country if Blond people upset you so much?

By Willy Binkles | 11 September 2012 1:02 PM

the above comment is exactly how geert wilders would sound like if he was talking about the Dutch instead of the immigrants. Except of course, in this case he would be actually making sense.

By exotic_kennismigrant | 11 September 2012 1:27 PM

Hi,
Election: Rutte 'best qualified' to be prime minister. As an outsider I have the impression your be prime minister is a Windmill prime minister, only works in the direction of the wind.

By Terence Hale | 11 September 2012 2:56 PM

Osita, Europe was around before the EU or the Euro. Trade happened between countries before the Euro. Whether the Netherlands support the EU or not, trade will happen. Might be a bit less, but it'll still happen. Trade is just easier with a single currency, within the EU.

By A Nonny Mouse | 11 September 2012 4:01 PM

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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