The Netherlands far-right PVV Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders speaks to the media representatives following the European Parliament elections provisional results in The Hague on June 6, 2024.
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The Dutch government collapsed on Tuesday after disagreements over immigration proposals led to far-right leader Geert Wilders withdrawing his party from the ruling coalition.
Wilders said in a CNBC-translated post on the X social media platform that his Party for Freedom (PVV) party would be departing over the alliance’s lack of support for their asylum proposals.
The PVV won a landslide victory in the Netherlands’ general election in 2023, knocking former Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s party off the top spot. Despite the victory, the country’s four major parties chose the former head of the Netherlands’ intelligence service, Dick Schoof, as prime minister.
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