The Hague, Netherlands (AP) – The far right populist legislator Geert Wilders plunged Dutch policy into turmoil on Tuesday by removing the ministers from his ruling coalition party in a dispute over a repression against migration. The other ministers will direct a guardian administration until new elections can be organized.
The decision means that the Netherlands will have a goalkeeper government when he hosts a summit of NATO leaders in three weeks.
Prime Minister Dick Schoof held an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis, then visited King Willem-Alexander to offer him the resignations of Wilders party ministers for freedom.
Schoof, a career civil servant who was sorted on the side by Wilders a year ago to lead the government, said that he had said the coalition leaders in recent days that the government falls would be “useless and irresponsible”.
“We are faced with major challenges on a national and international level and, more than ever, a determination is necessary for the security of our resilience and the economy in a rapidly evolving world,” said Schoof.
No date for a new election has been set, but it is unlikely before the fall.
The 11 -month administration of SchoF is going to history as one of the shortest governments in Dutch political history.
Wilders announced its decision early Tuesday in a message on X after a brief meeting in the Parliament of the leaders of the four parties that make up the fracturing administration.
Wilders blame inaction on migration.
Wilders told journalists that he withdrew his support from the coalition and had withdrawn his cabinet ministers for not having acted on his desire to distribute the migration.
“I have signed up for the most difficult asylum policy and not for the fall in the Netherlands,” said Wilders, whose freedom for freedom is still raised in Dutch opinion polls, although the gap with the opposition of the center-left is negligible.
The coalition partners rejected this argument, saying that they all support the reduction in migration.
The Prime Minister appealed to make the leaders act responsible.
Dilan Yesilgöz, leader of the right -wing people for freedom and democracy, said before the meeting that Schoof urged managers to act responsible.
“The Prime Minister who appealed to us this morning said that we are faced with huge international challenges, we have a war on our continent, an economic crisis could come to us,” Yesilgöz told journalists in Parliament.
But a few minutes later, the meeting was over, as was Wilders’ participation in government.
“I am shocked,” said Yesilgöz, calling for Wilders “Super-Irresponsable” decision.
After years of opposition, Wilders’ party won the last elections on commitments to reduce migration. He has become more and more frustrated by what he considers the slow pace of the efforts of the coalition to implement his plans.
Last week, Wilders asked the coalition partners to connect to a 10 -point plan that aims to radically reduce migration, in particular using the army to keep the land borders and divert all asylum seekers. He said at the time that if the immigration policy was not going, his party “is outside the cabinet”.
He made his pledge on Tuesday.
Wilders’ decision comes a few days after conservative Karol Nawrocki was announced the winner of the presidential election of the Poland weekend, a victory that suggests that Poland will probably take a more populist and nationalist path under its new president, who was supported by President Donald Trump.
This is not the first time that Wilders has turned his back in power. He promised his support for a minority government led by former Prime Minister Mark Rutte in 2010, but left less than two years later after a dispute concerning government austerity measures.
“You know that if you are working with Wilders in a coalition … It won’t go well,” Rob Jetten, leader of the opposition party D66, said to Dutch Broadcaster our.
Other coalition leaders are looking for an uncertain political future.
Caroline Van der Plas, head of the pro-farnure movement of citizens of populist farmers who is part of the coalition, said that she was angry with Wilders’ decision.
“He does not put the Netherlands first, he first puts Geert Wilders,” she told Dutch broadcaster.
Nicolien Van Vroonhoven, chief of the new part of the social contract which took beats in the polls since he joined the coalition and the departure of his Talismanic chief Pieter Omtzigt, said that the government could continue without Wilders, saying that a minority firm “is definitely an option”. Schoof’s declaration seemed to end such an event course.
The opposition welcomes the departure of Wilders.
Frans Timmermans, the former climate chief of the European Commission who now heads the main opposition block in Parliament, praised Wilders’ decision. He said he would not support a minority government and called for new elections as soon as possible.
“Well, I think it is an opportunity for all democratic parties to get rid of extremes because it is clear that with extremes, you cannot govern. When things become difficult, they run away,” he told the Associated Press.