The leader of the far-right Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, on Monday withdrew three bills previously sent to parliament, which included, among other things, a ban on the Koran and aid to mosques and Islamic schools. send a favorable message to possible political partners in the formation of the ruling coalition.

The Council of State (an institution with the prerogatives of the constitutional court) qualified one of the three draft laws as contradicting “the basic principles of a democratic state governed by the rule of law” because it believes that “Islam is not a religion, but a violent totalitarian ideology,” reports the EFE agency, which quotes Agerpres.

Another bill, withdrawn by Geert Wilders, would have banned ministers with dual citizenships from working in government, as well as voting rights for dual citizens, affecting around 1.3 million Dutch people, many of whom hold Turkish or Moroccan citizenship.

A third draft of the withdrawn regulation allowed for “administrative detention” so that those suspected of “jihadist” activities could be detained for up to six months without the intervention of a judge, a provision that the Council of State deemed “unacceptable”. in a legal state”.

After an election campaign in which Wilders criticized the EU’s “dictat”, he called for the expulsion of illegal migrants, a ban on Muslim schools, the Koran and mosques in the Netherlands, and a “Nexit” referendum to take the Netherlands out of the EU, following the Brexit model. his formation won the most votes in the November 22 election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in the lower house of the Dutch parliament, a situation that gives it priority to try to form a governing coalition and favor right-wing parties.

Since mid-December, the Party for Freedom (PVV) has been conducting confidential negotiations on the formation of a government coalition with three of these parties, namely the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD – the liberal party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte), the Christian Democratic Party Noul Contract Social (NSC) and the far-right formation Mişcarea Fermier-Cetățean (BBB).

The withdrawal of the three bills was mainly in response to the request of NSC party leader Peter Omzigt, who said he would not negotiate with Wilders on forming a government unless anti-democratic topics were removed from the agenda. extreme right