8 hours agoDutch government drops, right-wing party leader leaves coalition
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The Dutch government fell today following disagreements on immigration proposals, which led to the withdrawal of the far-right leader Geert Wilders' party from the ruling coalition. Wilders said in a post translated by CNBC on the social platform X, that his Party for Freedom (PVV) would leave due to lack [...]
Wilders said in a post translated by CNBC on the social platform X, that his Party for Freedom (PVV) would leave due to the alliance's lack of support for their asylum proposals.
The PVV won overwhelmingly in the Netherlands' general elections in 2023, bringing down former Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party from the first place.
Despite victory, the country's four main parties elected the former head of the Netherlands' intelligence service, Dick Schooff, as prime minister.
Wilders had warned on Sunday that his party could leave the coalition, Television broadcast.
Allow me to be very clear. If most of our proposals by the ten-point asylum plan are not approved by the coalition (and thus not added to the Main Line Agreement) and not implemented by the cabinet as soon as possible, then The PVV will withdraw from this coalition”, he said in an X post over the weekend.
Last week, The PVV presented a 10-point plan to cut immigration, which included a call to stop asylum and temporarily ban the reunification of households for all asylum seekers who have been granted refugee status. /Periscope/
