Khansaber
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July 4, 2024 ,
Netherlands’ outgoing Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, left the government’s headquarters in The Hague on his bicycle.
“He rides on a bicycle. This is a portrait of a normal guy… a leader of a ‘People’s Party’,” political analyst Andre Krouwel of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam told AFP.“He’s not coming in a big limousine or an expensive car with a driver opening doors. He doesn’t need it.”
“In the Netherlands you don’t need to show power through all these kinds of symbols of wealth. People like this kind of humility.”
https://twitter.com/x/status/1808135692108579293
On Wednesday, NATO ambassadors appointed the outgoing Dutch prime minister as the alliance's next secretary general, its top civilian post. Rutte is scheduled to head the world’s biggest military organization beginning in October,2024.
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Netherlands’ outgoing Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, left the government’s headquarters in The Hague on his bicycle.
“He rides on a bicycle. This is a portrait of a normal guy… a leader of a ‘People’s Party’,” political analyst Andre Krouwel of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam told AFP.“He’s not coming in a big limousine or an expensive car with a driver opening doors. He doesn’t need it.”
“In the Netherlands you don’t need to show power through all these kinds of symbols of wealth. People like this kind of humility.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1808135692108579293
On Wednesday, NATO ambassadors appointed the outgoing Dutch prime minister as the alliance's next secretary general, its top civilian post. Rutte is scheduled to head the world’s biggest military organization beginning in October,2024.
Link