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The Dutch cabinet has resigned in the wake of the childcare benefit scandal in which thousands of parents were wrongly treated as fraudsters. But with a general election taking place in just two months time, ministers will stay on in their present roles until then, acting in a caretaker capacity. Here’s an explainer of what it all means.
So what happens in the next few days? On Tuesday, MPs will debate the government’s official response to the highly critical report on childcare benefit scandal, which covers 25 pages and has been a month in the making. If the cabinet had not resigned, there would have been a motion of no confidence in the government, which may well have passed, despite the narrow coalition majority.