Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders announced on Wednesday that he will not be prime minister due to a lack of support from the political parties with which he is trying to form a government coalition, France Presse and Agerpres reported.

“I cannot become prime minister if ALL parties in the coalition do not support me. It wasn’t like that,” Geert Wilders said on Platform X, almost four months after the parliamentary elections.

The leaders of four Dutch centre-right and far-right parties, including Geert Wilders, who heads the Party for Freedom (PVV), the far-right party that won the general election in November, are now negotiating a coalition deal in which none of them will be prime minister and all will remain in parliament to unblock negotiations on the formation of a ruling alliance, the Dutch press reported on Wednesday, as quoted by Reuters and EFE.

Otherwise, negotiations have been difficult from the start between the four participating parties, the Freedom Party (PVV), the New Social Contract (NSC), the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD – Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s liberal party) and the far right the Citizen Farmers Movement (BBB) ​​party, which together would have 88 of the 150 seats in the lower house of the Dutch parliament.

The formations of the National Security Council and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications have always been reluctant to cooperate with Wilders, who during the election campaign criticized the “dictat” of the EU, demanded the expulsion of illegal migrants, the ban on Muslim schools, the Koran and mosques in the Netherlands, and also called for a referendum on “Nexit” with a view to leaving of the Netherlands with the EU, according to the Brexit model.

Although after winning the election, in which the Party for Freedom (PVV) won 37 seats in the lower house of parliament, Wilders detailed his positions expressed during the campaign, recently agreeing, in particular, to the continuation of military aid to Ukraine, which was rejected in the election campaign, pro-European the parties assessed that the far-right leader had not sufficiently changed his approach.

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