Far-right Geert Wilders agrees deal for Dutch coalition government

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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 People’s 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

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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.

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1. It will not be a good time for non-native citizens or anyone with dark skin. Wilders is another nativist Putin Protgege

whose racial purity stance rivals that of 1930's Berlin.

[Turbineguy]

2. Wilders is half-Indonesian half white.

He has black hair that he dies blond.

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3. You don't suppose he might be over-compensating for something, do you???