Geert Wilders Will Not Become Dutch PM Despite Dramatic Election Victory After Parties Refuse to Form Coalition With Him
Dutch Right-wing anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has abandoned his bid to become the Netherlands’ next Prime Minister despite his party’s dramatic election win in November. The Mail has more.
Wilders, who has run on a hard-Right and anti-Islam platform with his Party for Freedom (PVV), wrote in a post on X on Wednesday evening: “I can only become Prime Minister if all parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case.
“I would like a Right-wing cabinet. Less asylum and immigration. Dutch number one. The love for my country and voter is great and more important than my own position.”
Wilders’s announcement came as many in the Netherlands sat and waited for a report on the ongoing coalition talks, amid speculation of a breakthrough that could result in a technocratic Government.
The man overseeing the negotiations between the political parties, Kim Putters, has said the bickering parties were ready to take the “next step” after two days of “good and intense” talks at a country estate.
Dutch party leaders have been tight-lipped during the process but public broadcaster NOS reported that the most likely outcome for Thursday’s report was an “extra-parliamentary” or technocratic cabinet.
It is unclear exactly what form this could take, but it is expected that four party leaders will serve as MPs.
Parties would appoint the members of the cabinet but they could be drawn from ‘ordinary’ party members or even from outside politics, according to media reports.
Wilders stunned the Netherlands and Europe with a convincing victory in November elections that put him in pole position to lead coalition negotiations.
Unlike Britain, France or the United States for example, the Netherlands has a very fractured political system that means no party is strong enough to govern on its own.
The far-Right leader’s Freedom Party (PVV) therefore started talks with the centre-right Liberal VVD party, the BBB farmers’ party, and a new party, the New Social Contract (NSC).
The NSC, led by anti-corruption champion Pieter Omtzigt, was the other new factor in the election, gaining 20 seats and making it indispensable in any coalition.
But almost immediately after PVV’s victory in November, tensions flared between political parties, with the NSC in particular raising questions about the PVV’s far-Right manifesto.
Among other things, the PVV manifesto calls for a ban on mosques, the Koran and Islamic headscarves. It also wants a binding referendum on a ‘Nexit’ – the Netherlands leaving the European Union.
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Shame on the Dutch Farmers party for refusing to support Geert Wilders, who was democratically elected by the majority of voters to be their Prime Minister.
Shame on all the other Dutch parties for defying the will of the Dutch citizens trying to save the Indigenous Dutch people from extermination.
Just like our own parties defying the will of the British citizens who voted for Brexit.
Actually the Dutch Citizen-Farmers party would have been happy with Wilders as PM. The liberals / VVD would not have been fans but would not have blocked it either. It is the new party of Omtzigt – NSC – who refused to countenance Wilders as PM.
It’s also not quite correct to say that Wilders won the majority of votes. He did not. He won the most votes of any party, meaning he had 24% of votes cast; the next biggest party, Labour/GreenLeft had 16% of votes cast. So yes he was by far the largest party, but also far from having a majority – which is why he needs those other 3 parties, one of whom is using his role as “kingmaker” to the greatest effect.
“Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason”————Mark Twain
Thanks for that information. Here’s what the Rightful Prime Minister of the Netherlands said about it:
“We have become the largest party — I think I should have become prime minister.
“It is unfair, undemocratic and constitutionally incorrect.”
Dutch anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders abandon PM bid but pledges people ‘will be heard’ | World | News | Express.co.uk
And the Dutch Farmers party are trying to replace Geert with a woman, Mona Keijzer, who shared a top government post with… wait-for-it… a Muslim Turk.
Wilders is either clueless or lying here. The prime minister is appointed by royal decree. There’s no reference to parliament whatsoever in the constitution about this. At the absolute minimum, a government will need parliamentary approval of its budget and appointing someone as prime minister who can command a majority there is one way to make this likely, nothing more.
Are you saying that King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands can choose whoever he wants from Parliament to appoint as Prime Minister by royal decree?
Impressive, if true. That means the King of the Netherlands is much more powerful than King Charles III.
That’s what the constitution states. Charles III. has the same power, BTW. That the leader of the majority party is usually appointed PM is just a convention. Whoever becomes UK PM needs to get parliamentary approval for king’s/queen’s speech setting out the general programme of the government and whether or not the house of commons would be supportive of a PM not appointed in the traditional way would be an interesting experiment but beyond the “Can’t be arsed, give me money!” stance British monarchs usually take on this, there’s nothing which would formally prevent it.
Astonishing.
And is the same true for King Frederik X of Denmark, King Felipe VI of Spain, and the rest of European royalty?
How many people know that, I wonder? Probably about as many as know that their democratic votes have been overwhelmed by those of Commonwealth citizens for decades.
I know this for the British king and checked it for the one of the Netherlands. I don’t know about the others.
Actually Mona Keijzer would be an interesting choice for PM. She was a minister during Covid times, and had the gall to publicly critizice the policies such as lockdown. She was ordered to withdraw her remarks and apologise – she refused and preferred to be sacked – which is something virutally unheard of in the Netherlands. She left the Christian Democrat party as a result and then later joined the Farmer-Citizen party.
So I’m not so sure she would be a bad choice: she has shown some principled reasoning during the madness that was Covid.
She’s just another Globalist masquerading as a patriot, like Giorgia Meloni.
Yet again it will be the true patriotic men like Geert Wilders and Italy’s Matteo Salvini the people choose, suddenly replaced by women under the control of the Globalists.
We also never voted for millions of migrants diluting our identity so that pretty soon all our daughters will be going to school with headscarves on. We never voted for Net Zero either, but then again neither did the politicians. They just waved it through with no questions asked. ——-So what we get is a political class that treats its own voters with utter contempt and will do what it wants to do regardless of what any of us think.
No government official in the Netherlands is elected. There’s a parliament which is composed of a number of party factions whose relative sizes are determined by the result of an election. A government will usually need enough support in parliament to get its laws passed. How this support is acquired is unspecified. Government itself is appointed by the king.
Dutch farmers are angered by what EU regs are doing to them, trying to destroy them – but are avid supporters of the EU and the Netherlands’ continued membership.
There is much insanity about.
Oh, that must be why they don’t like Geert’s “Nexit” policy.
Of course they don’t. The country is a huge food exporter and the absolutely last thing the people producing this food need is customs borders cutting them off from their largest market.
That’s what “trade deals” are for, which Britain should be using its top specialists to negotiate, instead of useless diversity hires.
That’s something which can also be achieved with trade deals. But for people who export stuff and who also tend to be naturally conservative, as farmer are known to be, “don’t disrupt the existing arrangment” will have a strong appeal. It’s also arguably better to have the political power to influence EU policies than just being forced to implement them because of practical necessities. One of the Brexit arguments was We will get a good trade deal because by-and-large we’re buying and not selling stuff. The situation in the Netherlands is different from that.
No one has the “political power to influence EU policies”, which are all rammed through by the Globalists with only a theatrical show of consultation. And the only reason they are desperate to keep Britain shackled to them is because British Taxpayers were, and still are, funding about one-sixth of their entire budget.
The EU is nothing but a waste of time and money, a bloated monster dedicated to the Marxist Redistribution of Wealth from the First World to the Third.
What you refer to as the globalist control the majority of the national governments of the EU member states to some degree. And these, in turn, control the EU. A nice example of this was the recent election in Poland which caused the new Polish PM to ram through the usual polices ‘at warp speed’, namely, before too many people start to ask questions how he actually became PM. This couldn’t be done before because the former Polish government wasn’t willing to do it, much to the repeatedly articulated chagrin of governments of other EU member states. There are also huge areas of policy the globalists don’t really care for, eg, all these regulations about food packaging and stuff like that. But that’s of obvious interest to people selling food.
If i understand correctly, his party will still be the biggest in the coalition, it’s just that Wilders himself will not take the top job for a more unifying candidate. I’d be happy to be told otherwise if i’m wrong.
Geert Wilders deserves the top job more than any “unifying candidate”,
“unifying” meaning “Globalist Puppet”.
A great example of Political establishment circling the waggons. And also of scared stiff hand wringers afraid of getting beheaded or whacked with machetes by those peace loving people.
Have another election… Keep doing this until the people give the correct answer.
German news sources (ZDF) are currently speculating if there will be a rerun of the Portugese elections in summer because too many people voted for the evil extreme rightist party du jour no other party is willing to negotiate with.
“Political opponents accuse Chega (= “Enough”) of frequently resorting to xenophobia, racism and demagoguery. Party leader Andre Ventura says his party “touches on issues that interest people”.”
He sounds like an honest man to me, like Geert Wilders and Nick Griffin.
Anything is better than Ruttė. Well done Wilders for putting his country and party before his own personal interest. Class act.
I disagree. Evil always uses people’s compassion against them.
Geert should not fall on his sword. The people elected him.
Well, that is Dutch PR for you.
So the lesson for Dutch voters next time is to increase the vote for the PVV, and knock the blocking parties out of the ballpark.
That’s something PR-based split-them-into-factions schemes are designed to avoid. People may agree on a lot of things but their opinions on preferred colours will always remain different. For as long as each party is invariable associated with a certain colour, a healthy diversity of political opinions (read: people fighting each other over petty consideration while getting royally shafted) will hopefully always exist.