Far-right
PVV pulls out of Dutch coalition over asylum plans
June 3, 2025
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/06/far-right-pvv-pulls-out-of-dutch-coalition-over-asylum-plans/
The Dutch
government collapsed on Tuesday morning after Geert Wilders, leader of the far
right PVV, stepped out of the coalition after failing to have his own way over
asylum.
“No
signature for our asylum plans, no changes to the main coalition agreement. The
PVV is leaving the coalition,” Wilders said on social media.
At a press
conference last week, Wilders presented a 10-point plan to cut migration by
enlisting the army to secure and patrol the borders, close refugee
accommodation facilities and send home all Syrian refugees on the grounds that
the country is no longer high-risk.
On Monday he
demanded the three other party leaders “add their signatures” to the plans and
ensure some measures are realised in a few weeks. Otherwise, he said, he would
quit.
The four
parties met on Monday evening and again on Tuesday morning, where Wilders said
he was leaving.
BBB leader
Caroline van der Plas said she was extremely angry and described Wilders’
action as “irresponsible”.
“He has all
the trumps in his hand and yet he just pulls the plug,” she told reporters.
Nicolien van
Vroonhoven, who replaced Pieter Omtzigt as head of the NSC, said the decision
is “incomprehensible”, while Dilan Yesilgöz, leader of the second biggest
coalition party, the VVD, said there was no difference of opinion between the
parties.
“We had a
right-wing majority and he lets it all go for his ego,” she told reporters.
“He’s just doing what he wants.”
The PVV
leader also called for EU quotas on asylum to be suspended temporarily and a
total ban on children and other family members joining refugees who are already
in the Netherlands.
He said his
party, which is the largest in parliament with 37 of the 150 seats, would no
longer support the four-way coalition unless significant progress was made
before the summer.
Legal
experts have warned that many of the plans conflict with European human rights
laws or the UN refugee convention of 1951, such as sending all Syrian refugees
home within six months even though the government has not declared Syria a safe
country.
Others, such
as abolishing the so-called “spreading law” which requires local councils to
accommodate a minimum number of asylum seekers, are already in the coalition
agreement, but Faber has so far been unable to steer the relevant laws through
parliament.
Prime
minister Dick Schoof is expected to hand in his resignation to the king later
in the day.
Some, if not
all, of the PVV ministers are likely to leave immediately as well.
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