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Posted on 06/04/2025 2:13:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch opposition parties called Wednesday for fresh elections as soon as possible, a day after anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders sparked the collapse of the country’s four-party coalition government.
Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s 11-month-old administration fell apart when Wilders withdrew his Party for Freedom ministers. Schoof and the ministers of three remaining parties remain in power as a caretaker Cabinet.
The government, with limited powers, now has to lead the country for months before new elections and during what could — again — be protracted talks to cobble together a new coalition in the fragmented Dutch political landscape after the vote.
Lawmakers can declare some policy areas “controversial” during the caretaker period. That restricts the government from taking concrete action on those issues.
The Dutch electoral commission will schedule a general election for all 150 seats in the Second Chamber of parliament.
It is very unlikely to happen before the fall because of a parliamentary recess that starts July 4 and runs to Sept. 1 and that will be followed by several weeks of campaigning.
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Do the environmental wackos there want to remove the Dikes?
12 billion to Ukraine makes government popular there, too, like everywhere else.
What happened was Geert’s PVV party won the most seats, but not a majority, and the “center right” parties didn’t want to form a government that included him. So they formed a minority coalition with Geert’s tacit support.
But then they stabbed him in the back and refused to curb immigration.
So he pulled out.
Now, there will be an election with a stark choice: if you want to reduce immigration, you have to vote PVV, because none of the other parties will do it.
Just like Germany, they are freezing out the right and paying the price...
Same as Germany. They act like the right is the boogeyman...
Elections. Again.
Oh, reminds me of Miss Amsterdam who saved Holland when she stuck her finger in the dyke! (Nothing Sacred 1937)
its not the boogyman.
they are examples of what has happened all over europe.
Its called the Stockholm syndrome
... he got slapped.
They got all clogged up.
Associated Press
Headline: The Dutch government has collapsed. What happens next?
In the body: the ministers of three remaining parties remain in power
They have a Parliamentary system. It’s not like ours with two primary parties. They have a bunch of parties that have to come together to form a government. If one of the factions leaves and the remaining parties don’t have enough votes, the government collapses and they have to form new coalitions to form a new government.
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