The Freedom Party leaves the coalition

The Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, leaves the Dutch government.

Wilders wrote this in a post on X yesterday Tuesday.

-No signing of our asylum plans, no change in the constitution. PVV leaves the coalition, he writes.

In June last year, a number of right-wing parties – including the PVV – formally agreed to form a government. This happened several months after the country held parliamentary elections in November 2023, writes Ritzau.

Here the four, the People’s Party for Freedom (PVV), the Democratic Party (VDD), the New Social Contract (NSC) and the opposition Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) ​​ended up in government together.

Now the PVV has resigned, and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has been told that all the ministers in the party intend to resign. This is written by the news agency Reuters.

Geert Wilders and his anti-immigrant party were the big winners in the last parliamentary elections, where the party ended up as the largest.

But despite this, after many months of negotiations, he had to admit that he did not have enough support to take the lead as the new prime minister.

Wilders himself has not been part of the government, but so have several of his party colleagues, writes Ritzau.

Reuters reports that the government has been unstable since the parties reached an agreement in June last year. They have repeatedly had difficulty reaching an agreement on a number of points. This has now meant that PVV is leaving the government.

This means that the Dutch will most likely have to hold an election in the coming months, the news agency writes.

In addition, the new development may also delay a possible decision to increase Dutch defense spending in order to achieve NATO targets.

Geert Wilders has long been a popular figure, but opinion polls show he has lost many of his supporters since the party became part of the government, writes Reuters.