THE HAGUE Air Jordan Retro For Sale Online , March 17 (Xinhua) -- In the provincial elections to be held on Wednesday, voters in the 12 Dutch provinces will choose their highest representatives. The members of the provincial councils determine the policy of their own province and deal with cases that are too small for the national government and too big for the municipalities, like regional nature, infrastructure and spatial planning.
In recent weeks however, provincial issues or provincial politicians were hardly mentioned in a campaign dominated by the national party leaders. That is due to the Dutch electoral system which dates back to 1848. Since then the members of the provincial councils also elect the members of the senate, "de Eerste Kamer Air Jordan Shoes For Sale Online ," on May 26 this year. So, indirectly the outcome of the provincial elections will also decide on the composition of the senate.
The political balance in the new senate will be of great importance for the political power of the current cabinet of VVD (Liberals) and PvdA (Labor). The second cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Rutte came to power in November 2012 on the basis of a majority of 79 out of the 150 seats in the house of representatives, "de Tweede Kamer," which has been reduced to 77 after two Labor members started their own movement.
In the senate, the two government parties are in a minority. Together they have 30 of the 75 seats and therefore they had to find supporting parties, because for law-making in the Netherlands a majority is needed in both the house of representatives and the senate.
VVD and PvdA found supporters in D66 (Democrats) Air Jordan For Sale Online , the CU and SGP (Christian parties). Thanks to the support of these parties the cabinet could implement important law reforms, in healthcare, pensions, employment and education. Most scheduled law reforms of the second cabinet of Rutte have already passed through both houses of parliament, but for instance a revision of the tax system is still waiting.
VVD and PvdA would like to continue until the next general elections, scheduled for March 2017 Jordan Retro For Sale Online , but both parties are not performing well in the polls for the forthcoming provincial elections. If the government lose their majority of VVD, PvdA, D66, SGP and CU in the senate, the position of the government will become more unstable.
Last week the VVD of PM Rutte suffered damage by the resignation of Minister of Justice and Security Ivo Opstelten and the State Secretary for Justice Fred Teeven. The two abdicated because they gave inadequate and incorrect information about a deal of the public prosecutor with a drug lord fifteen years ago. In addition, claims of erroneous declarations and corruption caused the departure of VVD MP Mark Verheijen from parliament.
Minister for Health Jordan Shoes For Sale Online , Welfare and Sport Edith Schippers (VVD) suggested that the news was an orchestrated attack on the VVD performed to bring the party into disrepute. "If a remittance of fifteen years ago comes to light one week before elections, it is my conclusion that this is not without a reason," Schippers told newspaper De Telegraaf. But she did not offer any evidence.
In the latest poll by TV news show EenVandaag coalition parties VVD and PvdA and the supporting parties D66, CU and SGP are on 34 seats in the senate. VVD would get 11 representatives in the senate (-5 compared to the last senate elections in 2011), Labor are on 7 (-7) and the other three parties are jointly on 16. The five parties are thus, according to the polls Air Jordan Retro For Sale , four seats short of a majority in the senate.
The national party leaders realize the importance of the elections and showed themselves on TV and on the streets to campaign.
The new senate will stay on until 2019 and thus also have impact on the political relations after the next general elections in 2017. It will make clear which political coalitions are possible and which parties will have most power. Therefore it was not surprising that in recent weeks provincial issues were hardly mentioned and national leaders dominated the debates.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) shakes hands with Vincent Siew, honorary chairman of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, March 24, 2016. (XinhuaRao Aimin) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (back, R) meets with a delegation headed by Vincent Siew (back Air Jordan Shoes For Sale , L), honorary chairman of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, March 24, 2016. (XinhuaRao Aimin)
BOAO, Hainan Air Jordan For Sale , March 24 (Xinhua) -- Premier Li Keqiang has urged business people from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to firmly safeguard the political foundation for the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and deepen cross-Strait economic cooperation.
Li made the remarks on Thursday while meeting a delegation headed by Vincent Siew, honorary chairman of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, at the ongoing 2016 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).
"Our major policies and measures related to Taiwan are clear and consistent, and will never alter with the changes of Taiwan's political situation," Li said, stressing that with the 1992 Consensus as the political basis peaceful development of cross-Strait relations was assured.
Li said the mainland was willing to push forward cooperation and exchange in various aspects with the island and share development opportunities with Taiwan compatriots to realize mutual benefits.
According to Li Jordan Retro For Sale , cross-Strait relations are now in a crucial stage, and "everything can be worked out" if the 1992 Consensus is acknowledged and it is agreed that both sides belong to one China.
"We must still walk the path of peaceful development and build a wonderful future together," Li said, adding that "Taiwan independence" has no future and the blood ties between mainland and Taiwan compatriots will never be severed.