Labour Party Leader Lodewijk Asscher is facing questions from within his own party over his suitability to lead the party into next year’s elections because of his role in the childcare benefits scandal.
Asscher was minister of social affairs from 2012 to 2017, the period in which thousands of parents were wrongly treated as fraudsters and ordered to pay back thousands of euros in childcare benefit support.
A parliamentary inquiry into the scandal published a damning report, saying an ‘unparalleled wrong’ had been done to the parents.
The Labour Party Leader apologized, saying he was ‘filled with shame’ at his failure to act.
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