The new NATO Secretary General continues to work as a teacher

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, an Austrian newspaper “De Presse” wrote in an article: Mark Lute, the current Prime Minister of the Netherlands, will go to Brussels as the new leader of NATO by October. However, he wants to continue his teaching commitments at a secondary school in The Hague (one day a week). Hollande, the acting Prime Minister of the Netherlands, wants to continue teaching in a school in The Hague in his new position as the head of NATO’s Western Military Alliance. Rutte told reporters in The Hague on Friday that he wanted to investigate whether this was “somehow” possible.

The right-wing liberal politician is due in July He will be officially appointed by the 32 NATO member states as the new NATO Secretary General and will succeed Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg on October 1st.

Ruthe is a right-wing liberal. He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands for almost 14 years. The historian, who is unmarried and leads a rather unconventional lifestyle, continues to teach social studies once a week at a secondary school in The Hague. The NATO Secretary General will move to Brussels. But he said he wanted to return to The Hague on weekends. According to him, this should not be difficult, Brussels and The Hague are about two to three hours away by train or car.

In the summer of 2023, the centre-right coalition collapsed and He announced his retirement from politics. Coalition talks dragged on for months after parliamentary elections in November, which resulted in a clear center-right majority and essentially the victory of Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party. It was at the end of May that an agreement was reached on “Dick Shoof” as the new prime minister in this country, but he will not assume this position until July.

Route said last year that he would like to work as a full-time teacher. But he was asked several times, including by the United States of America, to run for the post of NATO president, and he quickly found supporters in Britain, France and Germany. Hungary and Slovakia, especially a few days ago, announced their agreement for this issue and voted for Rutte. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis also withdrew his candidacy for the post of NATO president on Thursday and endorsed Rutte.

Thus, Romania paved the way for the appointment of Mark Rutte, a former Dutch prime minister, was named the next secretary-general of the NATO alliance after months of deadlock. Romania was the latest NATO member state to drop its opposition to the former Dutch prime minister being given the top post. Romania’s presidential office in Bucharest announced that Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has withdrawn his candidacy for the post of NATO Secretary General. Romania has announced that it supports Rutte’s candidacy. This decision was taken by the Supreme Council of Defense of the country, which is chaired by Yohannis.

The countries of Hungary, Slovakia and Turkey have also recently agreed with Mark. Rote had announced. For a long time, these three countries, along with Romania, were the only NATO countries that prevented the appointment of the 57-year-old Rutte as Jens Stoltenberg’s successor. Rutte is a very experienced foreign policy expert. He was previously the head of the Dutch government for about 14 years, which is more than any other government in this country and is considered one of the oldest governments in the European Union.

For The appointment of a new Secretary General, convergence within the NATO defense alliance is essential. This means that none of the 32 current NATO member countries have any objections against this candidate. arrives. He has announced several times in the past that he wants to step down, but efforts by member states last summer to agree on a successor failed once again. At that time, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and then British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace were considered as possible candidates to succeed Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg has been the Secretary General of NATO for about 10 years now. He is the second longest serving Secretary General in the history of NATO. The longest tenure of the highest office of this international agreement was held by the Dutch “Joseph Lunes”; He served in this position from 1971 to 1984.

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