Anti-Islamic right-wing Dutch leader Geert Wilders, whose party won the parliamentary elections, announced today that he will not be prime minister because he does not have the support of the political parties with which he is trying to form a ruling coalition.
“I cannot become prime minister unless all parties of the coalition support me. That is not the case,” Wilders announced on the X network almost four months after the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands.
Yesterday, the Dutch media reported on a breakthrough that could lead to the formation of a technocrat government.
The political parties are ready to move to the “next phase” in the formation of the government after two days of “good and intense” negotiations, said yesterday the supervisor of the negotiations, who should submit a key report tomorrow.
Wilders stunned the Netherlands and the rest of Europe when he won a landslide victory in November’s parliamentary elections.
The leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) first tried to form a ruling majority with the liberal VVD party, the Agricultural Party (BBB) and the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) party. But the talks reached an impasse last month.
“I wanted a right-wing cabinet, less asylum and immigration. The Dutch first,” Wilders wrote today.
“The love for my country and my voters is great and more important than my position,” he added, although he has previously said regularly that he wants to lead the country.
His victory shook up Dutch politics, but to fulfill his promise to be “everyone’s prime minister” he had to convince other parties to join his coalition. His goal was to secure a majority of 76 seats out of 150 in the Dutch parliament.
During the campaign, Wilders capitalized on widespread frustration over migration, promising to “close the borders” and ban the Koran, but “postponed” the second promise, Beta news agency writes.
