(NL Times) State Secretary Nora Achahbar will tender her resignation to Prime Minister Dick Schoof later on Friday due to dissatisfaction over how the Cabinet handled the riots in Amsterdam following last week’s Europa League match between Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, sources told NOS and ANP. Tensions arose during the first Cabinet meeting after the violence and unrest in the capital, when Achahbar’s colleagues expressed opinions and positions which Achahbar considered to be racist remarks about people from ethnically diverse backgrounds, both media outlets reported on Friday afternoon.
She will be the second member of Schoof’s Cabinet to resign this month. The 42-year-old woman was born in Morocco, and has lived since a young age in the Netherlands, where her father was employed as a guest worker. She was on the 2023 election ballot as [an] NSC member, and was tapped as that party’s state secretary at the Ministry of Finance for social benefits and the Dutch Customs office.
