Tuesday, 10 June 2025 - 10:20
Wilders
accuses VVD of choosing left-wing destruction; GL-PvdA won't acquiesce to right
PVV leader
Geert Wilders lashed out against Dilan Yeşilgöz after she said that her VVD
would not work with the PVV in a Cabinet again. According to the far-right
Wilders, “Yeşilgöz is choosing Frans Timmermans’ PvdA/GL.” The GroenLinks-PvdA
leader said that his party would work with the VVD but would not shift to the
right to accommodate right-wing parties.
After taking
some time to consult with the VVD members, Yeşilgöz on Monday officially closed
the door to future cooperation with the PVV. Wilders, who is facing a sea of
noes, was not happy with that, as was evident in the tirade of posts he made on
X after her announcement.
“She wants
to destroy the Netherlands together with the left,” Wilders said on the social
media platform. “That means many more asylum seekers and Islam. But the voter
decides. So make the PVV the largest party so that no one can ignore us.”
Yesilgöz’s
decision to close the door on the PVV makes Wilders’ participation in a future
Cabinet even more unlikely. The far-right party is a no-go for the left-wing
and more centrist parties. NSC leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven and CDA leader
Henri Bontebal have also ruled out cooperation with Wilders’ party. That means
the only right-wing parties for the PVV to team up with are BBB, JA21, and FvD
- not nearly enough for a majority in parliament, according to the latest polls
by Ipsos I&O and Maurice de Hond.
In recent
days, discussion in national politics was dominated by whether Yeşilgöz would
work with Wilders again, or whether the VVD would seek cooperation with
GroenLinks-PvdA. GroenLinks-PvdA would be willing, but there will be no
shifting to the right to accommodate the right-wing party, leader Frans
Timmermans said at an election meetup in Eindhoven on Monday, NU.nl reports.
Timmermans
has been trying to approach other parties for some time, specifically the CDA
and VVD. Timmermans believes that the VVD has shifted too close to the radical
right and hopes to entice the party back toward the center. “The more firmly we
stand for our left-wing positions, the greater the chance that parties that
have moved to the right will return to the center,” he said. “We want to
attract parties to our right, instead of us having to make that move. We have
done that enough. We won’t do it anymore.”
The GroenLinks-PvdA leader said that with the PvdA’s participation in the Rutte II Cabinet in mind. At the time, the labour party made considerable concessions to make a coalition with the VVD possible to the backdrop of the financial crisis. The Rutte II Cabinet was the last Dutch Cabinet to serve its entire term in office, but the cooperation ended with the worst election res
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