Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited the king Saturday to turn in the resignation of his four-party coalition and set the deeply divided Netherlands on track for a general election later this year.
King Willem-Alexander flew back from a family vacation in Greece to meet with Rutte, who drove to the palace in his Saab station wagon for the meeting to explain the political crisis that toppled his administration.
Opposition parties on the left also want to make the election about tackling problems they accuse Rutte of failing to adequately address -- from climate change to a chronic housing shortage and the future of the nation's multibillion-euro agricultural sector. "Given the challenges of the times, a war on this continent, nobody profits from a political crisis," tweeted Sigrid Kaag, leader of the centrist, pro-Europe D66 party.
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