During a visit to Djakarta our Minister President visited an Islamic state university. A student asked how he thought about the Dutch gay marriage, on which he answered: "During that period I have voted against the gay marriage, but a majority of the House of representatives supported the legalisation."
Not only Balkenende is indirectly responsible for the infringement of Human Rights whilst making such remarks in his position and in such context, moreover he strongly devaluates his own authority as representative of the Dutch government. It is a State policy that the Netherlands aims to have a 'pioneering function' when it comes to LGBT emancipation.
Most interesting is the fact that he has blamed several Ministers in the past months for not presenting and defending the Parliament's policies, it all just sounds a bit awkward to me now!
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