In his expected victory, Dutch Justice Minister Dylan Jezelgosz will replace Mark Rutte, who served as prime minister for 13 years.
Next Wednesday, the Netherlands will elect the first female prime minister in its history, who will also be the first immigrant. She is also of Kurdish and Muslim origin, but polls confirm that Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgoz, 46, will be the one who will occupy the first position in the country, according to what local and foreign newspapers reported about her. It has been stated that, in the event of an expected victory, she will replace Mark Rutte, prime minister for 13 years.
They expect Dylan Yesilguz, leader of the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, to benefit from voters’ shift to the right, even though she came to the Netherlands as an immigrant at age 7 with her mother after running away in a country A Greek island on a boat crowded with immigrants, but has taken a tough stance on asylum seekers and pledged to reduce their numbers. The video shown below is from her visit last year to the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.
Last week, Yesilgüz opened up a lead over his rivals, promising voters “I will be on your side” and urging them to support his policies, not his gender. She said: “I will not say: I am a woman, so give me your votes, I have my own abilities (..) I would like to run the campaign with my objective opinions which aim to solve people’s problems”, and repeated her promise to reduce the number of immigrants by limiting the rights of residence and family reunification.
He further said: “There are too many asylum seekers, we don’t have enough housing and there is little integration, which is unfair for both Dutch society and the refugees,” De Telegraaf newspaper reported. They are proposals that caused the collapse of the previous justice minister, strengthened by a conservative-liberal coalition, in the midst of a growing migration crisis in the European Union.
Dylan Yeşilgoz, married for 9 years to a Dutchman and has not yet had children, was born in the Turkish capital Ankara, grew up in Amsterdam with Turkish parents and was then active in political work until she started working. she looking for the first position.