Mark Rutte: Stable Government

House Of Representatives Dept: "Now we have to focus on forming, as soon as possible, a stable government," Rutte said as lawmakers from his free-market VVD party cheered, according to CBC. Rutte's party won 10 extra seats to give it 41 overall in the 150-seat House of Representatives. His closest rival and now most likely coalition partner Diederik Samsom of Labor saw his party grow by nine seats to 39 and work to build a new ruling Dutch coalition started Thursday, after conservative leader Mark Rutte bucked a European trend by winning an election despite pushing through tough austerity measures to counter the continent's devastating debt crisis. Rutte later said he would not discuss coalition negotiations, to avoid jeopardizing the sensitive talks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.