What does it mean that the Dutch Government collapsed?
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A government is typically made up of members of an assembly or parliament and needs to have “the confidence of the house” – in other words, more than half of the votes members cast on important legislation such as a budget.
In the case of the Netherlands there was a coalition government; no one party had a majority of the seats (unlike e.g. the United Kingdom) so the government was reliant on all the parties in that coalition supporting its agreed programme. Some of the parties and members withdrew their support over immigration; as a result the government can no longer win key votes and therefore can no longer govern: it “collapsed”.
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