Posted on 06/03/2025 6:56:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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The Party for Freedom will be departing the ruling coalition over the alliance's lack of support for their asylum proposals.
The PVV won a landslide victory in the Netherlands' general election in 2023, knocking former Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party off the top spot.
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The Dutch government collapsed on Tuesday after disagreements over immigration proposals led to far-right leader Geert Wilders withdrawing his party from the ruling coalition.
Wilders said in a CNBC-translated post on the X social media platform that his Party for Freedom (PVV) party would be departing over the alliance's lack of support for their asylum proposal.
"We had no choice. I promised the voter the strictest asylum policy ever, but that was not granted to you," he said in a separate Google-translated comments on X.
The PVV won a landslide victory in the Netherlands' general election in 2023, knocking former Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party off the top spot. Despite the victory, the country's four major parties chose the former head of the Netherlands' intelligence service, Dick Schoof, as prime minister.
Conflicting ideas on immigration sank the former coalition in 2023 and ultimately led Rutte, the country's longest serving premier, to step down from the top post.
Wilders had on Sunday warned his party could leave the coalition.
"Let me be crystal clear. If the majority of our proposals from the ten-point asylum plan are not adopted by the coalition (and thus added to the Main Lines Agreement) and implemented by the cabinet as soon as possible, then the PVV will withdraw from this coalition," he said in a post on X over the weekend, according to a Google translation.
Stricter asylum policies Last week the PVV put forward a 10-point plan to reduce immigration which included a call to halt asylum and temporarily stop the reunification of families for all asylum seekers who have been granted refugee status.
"We wanted a stricter asylum policy... You see that many countries in the European Union - Austria, Poland, Germany, Belgium, they go further in taking measures," Wilders said in televised comments, according to a CNBC translation.
The Dutch economy has been steadily growing, despite inflation hitting 4.1% in April, well above the target for the euro area. The economy is expected to grow 1.5% this year and in 2026, according to the Dutch central bank, which also cautions that rising geopolitical tensions could put a strain on further growth.
The leaders of the other coalition parties accused Wilders of putting his own interests ahead of the needs of the country. "He chooses his own ego and his own interests," Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius, leader of Rutte's former party, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, told Dutch broadcaster NOS in Google-translated comments.
"I am astonished. He is throwing away the chance of a right-wing policy. This is super irresponsible," she said.
The Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) party said in a statement that Wilders had single-handedly pulled the plug on the government. "Governing the country is something different than threatening on social media," said Caroline van der Plas, leader of the BBB.
"This is completely irresponsible, reckless and incomprehensible for anyone who hoped for change."
The BBB party said the fall of the government now means "at least a year and a half of standstill," with left-leaning parties more likely to take over and put forward more lenient asylum policies.
Other opposition partieshave already called for elections, with the leader of the Socialist Party SP (SP) faction, Jimmy Dijk, saying in a post on X that now is the time for elections and "political change."
"The PVV won a landslide victory in the Netherlands' general election in 2023, knocking former Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party off the top spot. Despite the victory, the country's four major parties chose the former head of the Netherlands' intelligence service, Dick Schoof, as prime minister."
The West has taken in enough people to last 100 years
> far-right leader Geert Wilders <
Why do we never hear about far-left leaders? Maybe there aren’t any. Of maybe the mainstream media is full of crap.
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Hmmmm? Poland, Hungary, Netherlands...........Guess the bruselles elites won’t be pleased with what’s going on in EUtopia with these actions.
In Europe “far right” is defined by this one issue.
> It’s worse. The Muzzies will multiply like rabbits… <
And if that’s not bad enough, many studies have shown that children of Muslim immigrants are - in general - more radical than their parents.
Liberal fools think assimilation will take care of the problem over time. No, most certainly it will not.
Or just as bad, far-deepstate.
"the former head of the Netherlands' intelligence service, Dick Schoof"
Sad but true its past tipping point now, pretty much irreversible. Its up to eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine to be the last bastion of the white race on that continent. Western EU is burnt toast.
What is the point of voting?
CNBC is a rat propaganda op masquerading as a financial news network
Took him too long time to figure it out and in the process Wilders give up quite a few PVV platform concepts, including NEXIT. Now they obliged to shake the electorate for some more hocus pocus. Sort of like--you can express your opinion, but we'll decide what to do anyway.
Thanks for the post, Red.
What Wilders is asking isn’t much. Basically, tightening rules for asylum-seekers.
People granted asylum status are put on welfare and do not have to assimilate (e.g., learn the national language and get a job). Perhaps, in an emergency, a small number of persons displaced by war or natural disaster might be accommodated as asylum-seekers. But, asylum-seekers have become permanent and a big business (e.g., for the Catholic Church in this country).
As for another snap election: the upstart parties of the prior election (BBB and NSC) have fallen to trivial status in the polls. The CDA (traditional partners of the center-right VVD) have revived. And, the Forum for Democracy and J21 have continued to grow.
(Sorry for the shorthand. The Netherlands has many parties that gain representation in its parliament.)
Bottom line: the right of center parties continue to have something a two-thirds majority among them, although the specifics have changed. And, among the populists, conservatives, market-oriented liberals, libertarians and others of our coalition, there’s plenty of room for disagreement. Wilders should be willing to bargain with the members of the ruling coalition to avoid a snap election.
The big winner of a snap election would be the VVD + CDA faction. Those two parties could form or come close to forming a majority coalition with Wilders’ Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) or with a combination of small center and right of center parties.
The big losers would be BBB and NSC, whose time looks to have come and gone.
It appears to me that people all over the globe are tired of Liberalism’s false promises and want to return to traditional conservative values.
Lazy ass welfare leeches had better get their butts off the couch and put down the video game controllers and get a job!..................
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