Lower House supports postponement decision sale ABN Amro – Financieele Dagblad (Registration)

The House supports the postponement by Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem the sale of ABN Amro. The financial specialists find the groups that there should be clarity about the first increase in salary with a ton of most members of the board.

” We need to know whether the salary increase is legal or illegal, “said CDA MP Pieter Omtzigt. “If that is illegal, it must be reversed.” D66 and PvdA also find it appropriate that the government at the moment to take a decision on the sale. The VVD considers it “illogical” that Dijsselbloem his decision put on hold for now.

Bank discredited

Dijsselbloem said prior to the weekly cabinet meeting that the delay does not last long. “It is not a punishment, ‘says Dijsselbloem. “But a practical decision.” If there’s gonna be a letter to the decision, he did not say.

“A ABN Amro on their own, we should be able to confidence, “says Labour MP Henk Nijboer. “That is clearly not easy. While employees are laid off and entrepreneurs get difficult credit, the top sets the own financial gain ahead. The top does not care about the company, its employees and brings the bank thus discredited. The bank’s head does not meet the new, sober and servile culture that is necessary for a healthy financial sector. ” According Nijboer a delay become ‘inevitable’.

Favourable stock market

Wouter Koolmees D66 also wants the critical questions which the Court has stated this week on pay increases to be answered before a node is severed on the sale . Depending on the answers the sales process can still after the summer, put in motion or a decision must be delayed longer, says tit. Answers to the questions and a debate on a matter may be several weeks, says tit.

Liberal MP Aukje de Vries calls it “illogical” that Dijsselbloem first to answer parliamentary questions. That does not affect the VVD considers that a bank is not supposed to be in state hands. “The VVD was, is and remains in favor of a public offering of ABN Amro by a taxpayer for the amount as attractive as possible,” said De Vries. “It works better when there is no noise on the line. At the same time the stock market is now quite favorable for an IPO. I encourage the minister to know how fast he wants to put the steps. ”

Money laundering

SP MP Arnold Merkies hopes that couple comes out of procrastination. He points out that in addition to the salary increase is also concern in Dubai. There were six ABN Amro bankers sacked because they had violated the rules against money laundering and terrorist financing.

“This creates the image of a government that still does not realize the full responsibility for the society “, says Merkies. “Dijsselbloem states equally to brush aside the problems. I want us to enter into fundamental discussion again why we pay a bank with a utility function to the market. “