Diederik Samsom to become new Dutch PM

2012-09-13 68

With labour winning the Dutch elections, party leader Diederik Samsom, age 41, will now lead the country. He has been an MP for ten years.

A majority of the PvdA labour party members chose him, the environmental spokesman, as its head in March.

Samsom's popularity only pulled him ahead of his socialist rival for the prime minister's job a couple of weeks ago.

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