The former chief of the Netherlands’ gambling regulatory body has slammed the Dutch government for slow-rolling online gambling reform.

On Monday, the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) regulatory authority officially bid goodbye to Jan Suyver and Henk Kesler, who left their respective posts as KSA chairman and vice-chairman on October 1. The KSA’s new chairman is René Jansen, while the vice-chair’s seat has been filled by Bernadette van Buchem.

Suyver and Kesler reflected on the changes – and lack thereof – during their six-year run overseeing the Dutch gambling market. They noted that the government had urged them to prepare for the liberalization of the Dutch online gambling market as far back as 2012, yet the pair left the KSA without seeing that legislation become law of the land.

Suyver (pictured) assigned at least some of the blame on religiously inclined legislators in parties like the Christian Democratic Appeal and Christian Union, who’d previously blocked passage of the Remote Gambling Bill in the Dutch legislature’s lower house.