Presenting the coalition agreement, PVV leader Geert Wilders said he was very much looking forward to future cooperation with the NSC, BBB and VVD. He also said that he believed “the sun will shine again in the Netherlands”.
advertisementThe Dutch government has moved sharply to the right after four right-wing parties agreed to form a coalition government.
Geert Wilders, the anti-Muslim provocateur who topped opinion polls in last year's general election, reached an agreement with three other party leaders on Thursday, ending months of confusion when it was unclear who would become prime minister. It brought an end to negotiations.
The new agreement, with the slogan “Hope, Courage and Pride”, includes stricter measures for asylum seekers, an end to refugee family reunification and a reduction in the number of international students studying in the country. There is.
The 26-page document states that the government will seek to “deport as far as possible, even by force, people who do not have a valid residence permit.”
“The sun will shine again in the Netherlands,” said Wilders, a longtime activist against immigration and the presence of Muslims in Dutch public life. “Today we are writing history.”
The parties have not yet agreed who will become prime minister, but it is widely expected that a technocrat from outside the party organization will be chosen.
wind of change
Some EU countries, particularly Poland, have recently voted populists out of government, while other countries, including Spain, see major right-wing parties underperforming.
However, the rise of a hitherto unsuccessful right-wing ideologue to power in one of the EU's core member states is extremely worrying for left-wing and centrist governments and parties in the EU, many of which are are concerned about the composition of Parliament after the upcoming bloc-wide elections.
Far-right and populist parties are currently part of or leading several EU governments and appear to have an advantage in the upcoming European elections, with Brussels politics increasingly dominated by anti-immigration, socially conservative and nationalist policies. There is a possibility of moving to.
Mr. Wilders is a political ally of right-wing leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and French opposition leader Marine Le Pen, all of whom have, to varying degrees, taken control of Brussels. cites them as enemies of their nationalist goals. .
