Far-right anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is close to forming a four-way coalition, six months after coming in first in the Netherlands national elections.

Far-right anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is close to forming a four-way coalition, six months after coming in first in the Netherlands national elections.

Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the Netherlands six months after coming in first in national elections, opening the prospect that yet another European Union nation will veer toward the hard right weeks ahead of EU-wide elections.

Wilders has said he does not expect to become prime minister himself, because he remains too extreme for his coalition partners, but his Party for Freedom would be the driving force in a four-party coalition.

With hard right and populist parties now part of or leading a half dozen governments in the 27-nation bloc, they appear positioned to make gains in the EU polls, 6-9 June.

  • RubberDuckEnglish
    1•17 days ago

    Yeah I read it this morning. I was surprised that not a lot of the things I feared where in there. But at least all the stuff they don’t like from previous governments will be scrapped without offering alternatives. And they will be handing out truckloads of cash to incentivise farmers to stop (breaking the law and overusing our natural resources).

    But a collapse in 6 months, I doubt it. If anything Rutte has proven you can “govern” 16 years without actually achieving anything meaningful. They only got rid of stuff… except for harsher punishments all around… especially for citizens when making a mistake on forms.

    I am glad Ukraine will be supported as pvv was against this. Also the nuclear powerplants are a good solution for baseload imho… so that also seems good. I just hope they put them out at sea on new island(s).

    We will see.

    • SteefLemEnglish
      1•17 days ago

      The six months is a optimistic dream from me :) I dunno i mean i totally forgot they where still forming until i heard it yesterday. First they have to agree on who will be the face of it all… so that will prob take some time. Before we know it and after a lot of debate 4 years past and new elections will be held and nothing will really have changed or decided. Like you said we will see.