Deputies
The Queen appoints Deputy Prime Ministers. Conventionally all of the junior partners in the coalition get one Deputy Prime Minister; they are ranked according to the size of their respective parties. When the Prime minister is not present at a cabinet meeting, the senior deputy present chairs it. In the current Cabinet Rutte Lodewijk Asscher (Labour) is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands. If the Prime Minister and the deputies are absent, the oldest member of the cabinet chairs the meeting. In the current Cabinet Rutte, Minister of Public Safety and Justice Ivo Opstelten (VVD) chairs those meetings.
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