The Lower House on Tuesday in a vote rejected a motion that would remove as soon as possible to make the trade agreement with Ukraine.
A motion of almost the entire opposition in which the government was asked to withdraw the act of approval for the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine ,, as soon as possible, '' did not make it.
The House of Representatives last week's debate on the no-vote to give the consultative referendum on the association agreement. The SP then filed a motion to get the treaty table. On that proposal the House voted today.
A roll call vote was announced which was exactly clear which members voted for and against the motion. There 75 MPs voted against the motion and 71. The government parties VVD and PvdA Jacques Monasch voted as the only member of parliament with the opposition. The government regained the support of the independent MPs Van Vliet and Stonemasons.
On 6 April the treaty was rejected in a consultative referendum. Just over 61 percent of voters saw nothing in the agreement.
Two months
The government wants to pass over two months to say exactly how it wants to continue with the 'no' voters. That's after the British referendum on EU membership on 23 June and the end of the Dutch presidency of the EU at the end of that month. The opposition now immediately wanted clarity under the motto: ,, No is no. '
The latter slogan ,, sounds very vigorously, but offers no solution '', says minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem (Finance). He points out that it is an international treaty which also requires consultation with Brussels.
The government also says ,, right to want to do the voting 'no', and looks for ways to modify or add provisions to the treaty.
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