Mark Rutte: Deleting cell phone messages instead of sending them to state records

The Dutch Prime Minister is at the center of strong criticism Mark Rutteas after a relevant journalistic revelation, he admitted that he was deliberately deleting messages in the mobile instead of sending them to state archives for safekeeping.

According to Reuters, the revelation was made by newspaper De Volkskrantin the context of an investigation into Rutte’s actions at the beginning of the pandemic In a press conference he gave in The Hague denied that he had committed any reprehensible act and said that in part the reason he deleted the messages was that until recently he was using an old Nokia mobile phonewithout much memory, which forced him to delete them.

In fact, he added, although important communications between government officials must be maintained, it is not his responsibility to keep them. “The instructions say that it is left to each person personally, so I decide for myself if a message is important. This means in practice that I do not send anything personal to archive, nor messages that say “pick up the phone” or “the appointment is postponed”, but when there is something that has content, then I send it “for safekeepingexplained.

The opposition leadersof the Labor Party Atie Quiken and the Green Left Party Jesse Claverrequested to discuss the issue in parliament, with Klauer pointing out in a Twitter message that Rutte’s actions may be against the law. Far-right MP Heert Wilders said Rutte’s government should be “removed”.

Source: News Beast

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