(Dutch News) Prospective asylum minister Marjolein Faber has retracted her use of Nazi-era language on immigration, but insisted her concerns about the impact of asylum on the “demographics of the Netherlands” were well founded.
The PVV MP came under intense questioning over comments she made during a debate in the Senate four years ago, when she was rebuked by prime minister Mark Rutte for using the term omvolking, or population replacement.
Faber told a panel of MPs convened to run the rule over ministerial candidates that she recognised the word, derived from the German Umvolking, “carried terrible connotations with the past and Nazism.”
