The right-wing liberal party of the current Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, declared on Friday August 18 that it was ready to govern alongside the extreme right of Geert Wilders after the early legislative elections on November 22.
The new leader of the VVD, Mr. Rutte’s party, Dilan Yesilgöz, told the Dutch press agency ANP on Friday that she would not rule out participating in a coalition with the PVV, Mr. Wilders’ party: “I will judge the head of the list on the basis of their proposals”, she said. Responding to a journalist’s question, the outgoing Prime Minister then confirmed these statements.
” Yes. I completely agree “, Laconically affirmed Mr. Rutte, who will leave politics at the end of this election after thirteen years as head of government. It’s a ” 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. Herself arrived as a child as a refugee in the Netherlands, Mme Yesilgöz is in charge of carrying the VVD’s policy on the increasingly tough immigration dossier.
Failure of the quadripartite coalition
At the beginning of July, Mr. Rutte had surprised the Dutch by announcing that he would leave politics after thirteen years at the helm after the next elections.
This election had been organized following the collapse of the quadripartite coalition of Mr. Rutte a few days earlier due to differences “insurmountable”. 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 Farmer-Citizen 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.