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The far-right Liberal Party (PVV) has left the Dutch government in terms of asylum seekers’ policies, its leader, Ghat Wilders, said on Tuesday, defeating the Governance Union.
“I registered for the strictest asylum policy, not the Dutch downfall,” Wiles told reporters Tuesday morning. “And our responsibility for this cabinet will therefore end here.”
Wilders’ decision to withdraw support for the government, which is the most leaning right in Dutch history, has plunged the country’s politics into chaos. Of the 150 seats in Parliament, only 51 will leave the government led by Prime Minister Dick Schoef.
Opposition leaders are calling for immediate elections. Schuff, who clashed with Wilder over policy, has not yet commented.
The poll suggests that it was an election held today, but the PVV loses its seat but remains the largest party, just before the Central People’s Party for freedom and democracy.
But that is not a guarantee that it will be able to enter the new government. Dutch politics featured the constellations of political parties, none of which could command the majority of Dutch votes. Polls suggest that both the Central Right Party and the Central Left Party will come from the new election.
Wilders’ PVV was a clear winner in the November 2023 election. However, the coalition agreement struck a few months after he decided that he would remain on the sidelines in Parliament while his party joined the government.
Wilders has a long history of anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant rhetoric, and he was convicted of discrimination after shaming Moroccan immigrants at a campaign rally in 2014, and his party is seeking “Islamic schools, Kurmen and Mosques.”
Last week, Wilders held a rare formal press conference to present the government with an ultimatum to strengthen the country’s asylum policy, despite the fact that the Minister of Asylum and Immigration is a member of his own party.
“PVV is committed to voters with the strictest asylum policy ever, and aims to make it the toughest across Europe,” Wilders said Tuesday. “We proposed a plan to close the borders for asylum seekers, stop them and send them out.
However, he said the coalition rejected his proposal.
“We couldn’t do anything other than say we were withdrawing support for this cabinet.”
