Dutch far-right activist Geert Wilders announced on Wednesday that he and the leaders of three right-wing parties had finally reached an agreement on the formation of a coalition government.
Speaking in The Hague, Wilders, who will not be prime minister, said: “We have a negotiators’ agreement and we will return to the prime ministership at a later date.”
It is widely believed that such a candidate will be a technocrat from outside the political system.
Wilders had long desired the position, but it was considered too risky to be a national leader. So he put aside his career ambitions in exchange for advancing his program.
The government has been preparing for six months
Fiercely anti-immigration and anti-Muslim Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV) won a shock victory in the Dutch parliamentary elections six months ago – winning 37 of the party’s 150 seats – but failed to win. failed to form a government.
The new coalition will include outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, Pieter Omtzigt’s conservative New Social Contract (NSC) and the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB).
No further details of the deal to govern Europe’s fifth-largest economy have yet been made public.
js/lo (AFP, dpa)
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