US EditionWilders: Firebrand 'Dutch Trump' Gambles for Power
- Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch leader known as the 'Dutch Trump,' threatened in early 2025 to topple the Netherlands' fragile right-wing government in The Hague.
- This threat followed his demand for immediate support of a 10-point plan to severely restrict asylum seekers and migration, which coalition partners rejected.
- Wilders' Freedom Party won the November 2023 elections with 37 of 150 seats, rising from years in opposition to lead a fragile four-party coalition since July 2024.
- He acknowledged that there were more pressing issues than combating the large influx of asylum seekers and immigrants, and agreed to temporarily suppress his anti-Islam rhetoric as a condition for gaining political power.
- The coalition continues to struggle with consensus on asylum policy and faces difficult decisions amid polling that shows Wilders’ support has declined since joining government.
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The populist Wilders calls for the closure of the borders for asylum seekers, if necessary the use of the army. In the dispute over migration policy the government alliance in the Netherlands is now at the end.
In the Netherlands, the government does not want to support the strict migration course of right-wing populist Wilders. His party therefore leaves the four-party alliance.
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Wilders: firebrand 'Dutch Trump' gambles for power
Sometimes known as the "Dutch Trump" both for his bouffant dyed hair and firebrand rhetoric, Geert Wilders' anti-Islam, anti-immigrant and anti-EU message has catapulted him to the brink of power.
The Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders quits coalition.
It is a break with an announcement: the Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders has made his threat to burst the government coalition in The Hague. The background is the dispute over asylum policy.
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