Dutch government collapses as far-right leader pulls party out of coalition

c/europe · u/cm0002@lemmy.world · 53 points

>The Dutch government has collapsed after the far-right leader Geert Wilders pulled his party out of the ruling coalition in a row over immigration and asylum policy.

>The prime minister, Dick Schoof, on Tuesday handed in his resignation and that of his 11-month-old cabinet to King Willem-Alexander. Remaining ministers will stay on in a caretaker capacity until new elections, most likely in October.

>“We have decided that there is now insufficient support for this government,” Schoof told reporters in The Hague after an emergency cabinet meeting, adding that he considered Wilders’s decision “irresponsible and unnecessary”.

Comments

u/jenni007@lemm.ee · 1 points

He’s a great leader, without him the pvv would implode. That’s the scary thing.

u/Flemmy@lemm.ee · 1 points

He's got 0 leadership.

u/johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl · 7 points

Just under a year. 2 July would have been the one year mark if memory serves me correctly :)

u/witty_username@feddit.nl · 5 points

I had given them half a year. How long did they end up holding out? 9 months?

u/johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl · 37 points

That man never wanted to govern anyway. All he wants to do is scream and throw tantrums. I didn’t think it would last this long really.

u/jenni007@lemm.ee · 12 points

Wilders is against everything, the man is a walking disaster.

u/Gsus4@mander.xyz · 5 points

Hard to govern when all you do is *removed* against the government.

u/CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 1 points

HA HA!