Dutch Prime Minister Mark RutteMOSCOW, 21 May. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has been caught up in a scandal over years of deleting text messages from his mobile phone, writes De Volkskrant newspaper.
"Among the deleted texts were a message from Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsem about the Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020, which saw attendance ten times higher than expected, and a message from Unilever CEO Paul Polman about a controversial tax issue& #34;, — the article says.
This incident was the subject of discussion in the Dutch Parliament. Rutte was accused of violating the data archiving law. Opposition representatives also said that using an old model phone, and the prime minister used a Nokia 301 phone, could threaten state security.
Rutte said that he deleted messages solely because of a lack of memory in the phone, and sent the important ones to the state archive.
«The prime minister's phone memory seems to be used as selectively as his own memory,» Labor Party leader Attier Kuiken said. 
Protest against Prime Minister Rutte's policies took place in Amsterdam Media reports indicate that the Dutch prime minister has been using a Nokia 301 feature phone for many years, although he has there is an iPhone on which Rutte, according to him, only reads the news. During a debate in Parliament, he called his smartphone «bulky» and «ugly».
Dutch government press service says Rutte now has a new phone, he switched to it not because of the scandal, but because the previous one stopped working during a recent trip to the United States, the article summarized .