Leftist opposition withdraws confidence in Faber amid asylum policy controversy

Left-leaning opposition parties in the Netherlands have officially withdrawn their confidence in Minister of Asylum and Migration Marjolein Faber. A motion of no confidence was introduced by the Socialist Party (SP) and supported by GroenLinks-PvdA, the Party for the Animals, DENK, and Volt. The immediate trigger for the motion was the unrest surrounding Faber’s management of asylum policies, particularly those affecting mentally ill asylum seekers.