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    7 months ago

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    A Dutch party that won 20 seats in last week’s election has said it will not join coalition talks with anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders for now.

    However, he is struggling to get them to join coalition talks because of his party’s policies on banning mosques, holding a “Nexit” referendum on leaving the EU and halting military aid to Ukraine.

    Now the leader of the New Social Contract (NSC), Pieter Omtzigt, has said he has concerns around MPs and ministers “swearing allegiance to the constitution” if the PVV’s policies break it anyway.

    Mr Wilders, won 37 seats in the 150-seat parliament by tapping into concerns about immigration and a shortage of housing, and by softening his anti-Islam policies by saying he was prepared to put them “on ice”.

    First Dilan Yesilgöz announced she would not join a coalition under his leadership, then the man chosen by Mr Wilders to “scout” out the other parties stepped down because of allegations of financial irregularities.

    Mr Omtzigt said on Wednesday that before his party could consider coalition talks the PVV had to “indicate unequivocally which controversial points from its election manifesto are no longer current”.


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