The right-liberal party of the current Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, declared Friday August 18 to be ready to govern alongside the extreme right of Geert Wilders at the end of the early legislative elections of November 22.
The new leader of the VVD, Mr. Rutte’s party, Dilan Yesilgöz, told the Dutch news agency ANP on Friday that she would not rule out participating in a coalition with the PVV, Mr. Wilders’ party: “I will judge the heads list based on their proposals,” she said. Responding to a journalist’s question, the outgoing Prime Minister then confirmed these statements.
” Yes. I completely agree, ”said Mr. Rutte laconically, who will leave politics after this election after thirteen years as head of government. This is “good news,” reacted Mr. Wilders on X (formerly Twitter).
New leader of the VVD, Dilan Yesilgöz, who resigned from his functions of minister of justice, was invested Monday head of the party list for the elections. Arrived as a child as a refugee in the Netherlands herself, Ms. Yesilgöz is responsible for carrying out the VVD’s policy on the increasingly tough immigration file.
Failure of the quadripartite coalition
Earlier in July, Mr. Rutte surprised the Dutch by announcing that he would leave politics after 13 years at the helm after the next election.
This election had been organized following the collapse of Mr. Rutte’s quadripartite coalition a few days earlier due to “insurmountable” differences. The liberal had caused trouble among his partners on the right and in the center by demanding that they adopt divisive measures around the reception of asylum seekers.
Mark Rutte became prime minister for the first time in 2010, forming a coalition government thanks to the support in parliament of the leader of the far-right PVV party, Geert Wilders. By withdrawing his support for the government, Mr. Wilders had precipitated the fall of the latter in 2012, causing the holding of early legislative elections.
The VVD is aiming for a new term as prime minister while a party of Dutch farmers, the Citizen-Farmer Movement (BBB), less tough on immigration, hopes to shake up the system. Formed at the end of 2019, at the start of the peasant protest movement against plans to drastically reduce Dutch livestock for environmental reasons, the BBB is today the leading political force in the Senate.
