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- Credit: State Secretary Wilma Mansveld (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Rijksoverheid)
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Fyra debacle
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Cabinet Rutte II
Wilma Mansveld
Wednesday, 28 October 2015 - 15:01

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Resigned: Infrastructure Sec. Wilma Mansveld leaves over train report

Wilma Mansveld has resigned as State Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment following the report on the Fyra fiasco. The report's findings made it impossible for her to keep her position, RTL Nieuws reports. The report was harsh on almost everyone involved, including Mansveld. Among other things, the investigative commission concluded that she gave the Tweede Kamer, lower house of parliament, “untimely, incomplete or inaccurate” information, such as when Mansveld reported that inspection service ILT did not have the authority to inspect the trains. In The Hague it is considered a mortal sin for a member of government to withhold information, or give inaccurate information to the Tweede Kamer. Mansveld, PvdA, has been in the Cabinet Rutte II since November 2012.

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