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The Netherlands, the far right, the leader of the PVV freedom party, Geert Wilders, speaks to the media representatives following the provisional results of the European Parliament in The Hague on June 6, 2024.
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Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof left his role on Tuesday after disagreements on immigration proposals led the far right leader Geert Wilders, withdraw his party from the power coalition.
Earlier in the day, Wilders said In an article translated on the CNBC on the social media platform X, that its Party for Freedom Party (PVV) left the alliance’s lack of support for their asylum proposal.
“We had no choice. I promised the voter the strictest asylum policy of all time, but that was not granted to you,” he said in separate comments on Google on X.
The PVV won a landslide victory in the general elections of the Netherlands in 2023, dropping the party of former Prime Minister Mark Rutte out of first place. Despite the victory, the four major parties of the country chose the former head of the Netherlands intelligence service, Dick Schoof, as Prime Minister.
Contradictory ideas on immigration flow of the old coalition In 2023 and finally led Rutte, the longest Prime Minister in the country, to leave the highest position.
Wilders had warned Sunday that his party could leave the coalition.
“Let me be clear. If the majority of our proposals for the ten-point asylum plan are not adopted by the coalition (and therefore added to the main lines agreement) and implemented by the firm as soon as possible, then the PVV will withdraw from this coalition, “he said in an article on X during the weekend, according to a translation of Google.
Stricter asylum policies
Last week, the PVV presented a 10 -point plan to reduce immigration, which included an appeal to stop asylum and temporarily stop families for all asylum seekers who obtained refugee status.
“We wanted a stricter asylum policy … You see that many countries of the European Union – Austria, Poland, Germany, Belgium, they go further in taking measures”, Wilders said In television comments, according to a CNBC translation.
The Dutch economy has continued to grow, despite inflation reaching 4.1% in April, well above the target of the euro zone. The economy is expected to increase by 1.5% this year and in 2026, according to the Dutch central bank, which also warns that the increase in geopolitical tensions could exert new growth.
The leaders of the other coalition parties accused Wilders of having put its own interests before the needs of the country. “He chooses his own ego and his own interests,” Freedom and Democracy, the chief of Rutte, the Popular Popular Plendant for Liberty and Democracy told the Dutch broadcaster, told the comments treated by Google.
“I am surprised. He throws the chance of a right policy. It’s super irresponsible,” she said.
The Farmers-Citoyans Movement Party (BBB) said in a statement that Wilders alone has set the government. “Govering the country is something different from the threat of social networks,” said Caroline Van der Plas, head of the BBB.
“It is completely irresponsible, reckless and incomprehensible for anyone hoped for change.”
The BBB party said that the fall of the government now means “at least a year and a half of the stop”, with left parties more likely to take over and highlight more indulgent asylum policies.
Other opposition parties have already called for elections, with the leader of the Socialist Party SP (SP), Jimmy Dijk, saying in a job On X, it is now the time for elections and “political change”.
