WILLEMSTAD - Independent Member of Parliament Rennox Calmes has lost confidence in Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath in recent days. This was one of the major announcements made by Calmes yesterday during a long-awaited press conference. According to Calmes, Rhuggenaath has decided to let Suzanne Camelia-Römer stay as minister longer. While he had previously told Calmes to appoint a new health minister.

“So, I am not responsible for the unstable situation, but the prime minister himself,” said Calmes.

According to Calmes, Suzanne Camelia-Römer's PIN party has lost its own objectives in the past three years. That, according to Calmes, was the main reason for leaving the party.

PIN's starting point was that "old rope is tied to new rope", and that young people would become more involved in politics and cooperate with more experienced politicians. However, as the now independent member of Parliament puts it: "I was always silenced if I had to make decisions that I did not support, for the sake of the coalition and the country. But I was sworn to serve the country in good conscience. And that's what I stand for.”

One of the agreements within PIN that he believed was violated was that more young people would be given opportunities if they were appointed. "But it was always the same well-known people who ended up in certain positions," he said disappointed. Regarding the refinery, too, he has often decided in the country's interest, for example to support the developments around Klesch, but he says that he has become increasingly distant from his own critical ideas about this.

Another example in which he feels abandoned by the coalition members is the issue of stolen drugs from the police depot. "I have asked the Minister of Justice in parliament about this. This was already against the will of the parties.

I was not present during the meeting in parliament when the minister had to answer these questions. He never did this because I was not there. However, I am not asking the questions for myself, but for the people, so the minister should have just answered the questions.”

Regarding Camelia-Römer, about whom all sorts of allegations are currently circulating and six complaints filed against her, Calmes says: "I will stay behind her and will continue to support her because in my concept someone is innocent until proven otherwise."