Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced that he will not run for a fifth term and will retire from politics after the parliamentary elections in November.
This is reported by Reuters.
"As soon as the new cabinet is formed after the elections, I will leave politics," Rutte said in his speech in parliament before the debate on the resignation of the government.
He also confirmed that he is leaving the position of leader of the VVD party, which was the leader of the coalition.
Rutte took over as prime minister of the Netherlands in October 2010 and has headed only four governments.
56-year-old Rutte will remain the leader of the interim government. The process of forming a new government after parliamentary elections in the Netherlands can take months.
It will be recalled that the reason for the resignation of the Dutch government was the disagreement of some parties of the coalition with the strengthening of the migration policy, which would involve the possible separation of the families of asylum seekers.
In the country, which has one of the strictest migration policies, the number of asylum applications rose to more than 46,000 last year and could rise to more than 70,000 this year.
This adds to the strain on the country's shelters, where hundreds of refugees were forced to sleep on the streets for months last year with little or no access to drinking water and medical care.
