On Friday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte officially proposed Wopke Hoekstra as EU Commissioner of the Netherlands. The former foreign minister is to succeed Frans Timmermans, who is the leading candidate of an alliance of Social Democrats and Greens in the early parliamentary election on Nov. 22. However, there is a problem with Rute’s succession plan: Christian Democrat Hoekstra belongs to a different party family than Social Democrat Timmermans.