When PVV leader Geert Wilders decided on Tuesday morning around 9.15 am to get his party from the Shoofing Cabinet with a message via X (“PVV leaves the coalition”, the reporting of international media soon started.
The Zuiderburen soon got off the starting blocks. The Belgian broadcaster VRT started on Tuesday, already at 9.17 am, an accurate kept live blogthat the debate in the Lower House will also follow on Wednesday. “All balls on Wilders,” predicts the Netherlands expert Jeroen Reygaert of VRT NWS. “The House of Representatives will immediately be the start of the election campaign, no more and no less.”
According to the Flemish newspaper The standard With his action, put himself “once and for all on the sidelines of Dutch politics”. The newspaper calls the coalition under sheaf “in all respects a curiosity cabinet.” Just the fact that it was led by a non-elected, partyless official was special, writes The standard.
‘Abrupt end’
Franfurter Algemeine On Tuesday, Wilders wrote an abrupt end to his own right -wing experiment: “The failed coalition in the Netherlands was a coalition against her will from the start.” According to the newspaper, however, “the themes of Wilders” will not disappear and unregulated migration will remain a “megatrend of European and Western politics.”
Weekly Those Sea headed with: “blackmailed to the sidelines,” and states that “the right-wing populist Geert Wilders” has put his coalitionmates “with this roaring performance” in front of the block. “And so the government, who wanted to bring the Netherlands the self -proclaimed ‘strictest asylum policy of Europe’, ultimately in this project,” writes the newspaper.
According to the French Le Monde The cabinet trap was always coming, and “speeded” Geert Wilders who alone. The newspaper reported optimistic on Tuesday that “Dutch people will probably go to the polls again in the coming weeks.” The expectation is that this will only be in October or November.
‘New round of political chaos’
“Geert Wilders’ second introduction to power lasted less than a year. Will the European populist ever get a chance?” Financial Times off, a day after the cabinet trap. Under the head ‘Wilders Burns Allies in Dutch Collapse‘, the financial newspaper says that Wilders knows well what he is doing. “For the anti-Islamic politician, the step was a characteristic political gamble: creating unrest.”
American right-wing conservative television channel Fox News The Wilders’ move called ‘amazing’. The ‘Dutch Donald Trump’ they appointed would have withdrew his party “because the other three ruling parties were not willing to support his ideas about stopping migration.”
The Washington Post Departs Europe expert Mujtaba Rahman: “Wilders has plunged the Netherlands into a new round of political chaos. The immediate prospects are chaos and uncertainty.” The newspaper predicted early elections on Tuesday.
‘PVV continued to fall in polls’
According to British broadcaster BBC It is likely that Wilders deliberately dropped the cabinet on asylum and migration, so that he can put this back in the center in his upcoming election campaign. The broadcaster quotes Armida van Rij, researcher at Chatham House, a British think tank that conducts independent research into international issues. “Wilders wanted the government to collapse because the support for his PVV continued to fall in the polls.”
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