Six months after the elections, the coalition between the right-wing populists, the right, the liberal-conservatives and the protesting farmers is in place. Geert Wilders could soon announce the name of the new Prime Minister.
Nearly six months after the Dutch parliamentary elections, radical right-wing populist Geert Wilders and three other right-wing parties have tentatively agreed on a new coalition. This was announced by Wilders on Wednesday in The Hague.
He does not see how it could still fail, Wilders had already declared on Wednesday morning after 16 hours of marathon negotiations with the liberal-conservative VVD party of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte and two other right-wing conservative parties.
PVV leader Mr. Wilders announced that the four parties had reached a negotiating agreement. This will now be submitted to the factions of these parties in the Lower House. Only if they accept the text will there be a final agreement, Wilders said.
In the event of an agreement, the PVV, a right-wing populist and anti-Muslim party led by Wilders, would form with the VVD, the party currently in power, the NSC, a center-right party, and the BBB, a peasant protest party, a coalition with a majority of 88 seats out of the 150 in Parliament. Wilders is expected to present his candidate for prime minister soon, after announcing in March that he was stepping down from the post.
Wilders had repeatedly said he would only join a government that significantly limited asylum-related immigration. During the election campaign, he also announced that he wanted to reduce Dutch payments to the EU, prevent the accession of new members like Ukraine, and stop arms deliveries to Ukraine.
In the November 22 elections, Wilders and his radical right party, the Party for Freedom, won 37 of the 150 seats in Parliament.
