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February 3rd 2001
An inquiry by a leading Dutch newspaper and a Dutch newsreel for the television says that 81% of the Dutch people don't object to an eventual marriage between Willem-Alexander Prince of Oranje and Máxima Zorreguieta (another leading newspaper says it is even 89%). 66% of the people say that Jorge Zorreguieta, the father of Máxima, should be able to attend the wedding (the other newspaper says 58%). Almost 50% of the Dutch think Máxima should take distance from the political past of her father in public.

On the Dutch television Shimon Samuels, director international affairs of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said that Jorge Zorreguieta should take distance of his past in public and should express his regrets to the victims of the Videla regime. Of the 30.000 people who disappeared during the regime 1/3 was of Jewish origine. He says that Jorge Zorreguieta, as Minister of Agriculture at that time, is an accomplice. "If he doesn't express his regrets unequivocally, he defiles the esteem of the Dutch royal house. That is a shame!