Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says it is unfair and “constitutionally wrong” that he had to sacrifice his leadership aspirations in order to pave the way for a right-wing ruling coalition in the Netherlands after his party won elections in November.
FILE - Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right party PVV, or Party for Freedom, talks to the media after a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Nov. 24, 2023. Two days of behind-closed doors talks between four Dutch political leaders appear to have forced a breakthrough in negotiations to form a new ruling coalition nearly four months after a general election won by Wilders.
Campaigning on a populist, anti-immigration platform, Wilders’ Party for Freedom won 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament. The four parties in government talks hold a combined 88 seats, giving them a comfortable majority. Polls since the election show that support for Wilders’ party has continued to grow.
He said that many people who voted for his party expecting that he would become prime minister if his party emerged as the largest are angry"and I’m just as angry as they are.” Kim Putters, the former Labor Party senator who is overseeing coalition talks, is expected to present a report to parliament later Thursday on weeks of negotiations between Wilders' party, the center-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, populist Farmer Citizen Movement and centrist New Social Contract.
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