VVD joins other major political formations in dealing blow to far-right leader’s hope of return to power
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The Netherlands’s biggest centre-right party has ruled out forming another coalition government with Geert Wilders as its leader called him “an unbelievably untrustworthy partner” and a “quitter” who “puts his own interests above those of the country”.
In a significant blow to the far-right firebrand’s hopes of returning to power, Dilan Yeşilgöz leader of the VVD, said late on Monday that her party would not enter another government with Wilders after elections, due on 29 October.
The anti-Islam politician, who last week pulled the plug on the country’s four-party coalition in a row over immigration and asylum policy, “takes no responsibility whatsoever”, Yeşilgöz told RTL TV. “He has shown that he simply runs away when things get difficult. That’s tough for voters, and for the country. Geert Wilders is only interested in Geert Wilders,” she said.
