Far-right Geert Wilders agrees deal for Dutch coalition government
Source: The Guardian
The Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has agreed the basis of his first rightwing coalition government in the Netherlands.
Six months after his shock win of a quarter of parliamentary seats, his anti-Islam, anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV) will take the lead in an uneasy four-party coalition.
In an agreement that needs to be formally voted through by the individual parliamentary parties on Wednesday evening, he will form a government with the centre-right Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the New Social Contract party (NSC) and the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB).
However, the 60-year-old will not become the next Dutch prime minister, in an unconventional and experimental business government arrangement. The good news is that we have a negotiators agreement, but of course, this is only definitive when the parliamentary parties have also agreed, Wilders told the Dutch press late in the afternoon.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/far-right-geert-wilders-agrees-deal-dutch-coalition-government
Bummer. I was hoping not enough would agree to work with them, Wilders will no doubt wield a lot of power even if not PM.
Ford_Prefect
(7,982 posts)whose racial purity stance rivals that of 1930's Berlin.
Turbineguy
(37,501 posts)He has black hair that he dies blond.