{"id":345190,"date":"2024-03-14T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/14\/paesi-bassi-wilders-non-riesce-a-trovare-una-maggioranza-e-rinuncia-a-fare-il-premier\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:01:25","slug":"netherlands-wilders-cant-find-a-majority-and-gives-up-being-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/14\/netherlands-wilders-cant-find-a-majority-and-gives-up-being-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands, Wilders can&#8217;t find a majority and gives up being Premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels- Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right formation Party for Freedom (PVV), who overwhelmingly won parliamentary elections in\u00a0November, didn&#8217;t even manage to take a short walk in the park of the beautiful residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, just outside the center of The Hague. Last night, in a message on X, he announced that he had dropped out of the race because he could not find the support of the several\u00a0other parties needed to form a majority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can become prime minister only if all the coalition parties support it. They didn&#8217;t. I would like a right-wing government. Less asylum and immigration. The Dutch first,&#8221; Wilders wrote. &#8220;Love for my country and voters is great and more important than my position. I love the Netherlands.&#8221; Repeating his rhetoric, he had to admit he couldn&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>When the polls opened, the far-right party won\u00a0<strong>23.5 percent of the votes, finishing 8 percentage points ahead of the coalition between the Labor Party and the Green Left GroenLinks<\/strong> (PvdA\/Gl), led by the former head of the European Green Deal in the EU Commission, <strong>Frans Timmermans<\/strong>. Despite the increase in votes (+4.7 percent) compared to the last election in 2021 &#8211; when the two forces ran divided &#8211; the red-green coalition came in\u00a0<strong>second with 25 seats, behind the PVV&#8217;s\u00a037<\/strong>. Third place went to the\u00a0center-right of the <b>People&#8217;s Party for Freedom and Democracy<\/b> (VVD, which, despite its name, is not part of the European People&#8217;s Party family but of the Renew Europe liberals), with a <strong>6.7 percentage point drop and 10 fewer seats<\/strong> at the <em>Tweede Kamer<\/em> (from 34 to 24). Same fate for the liberals of <strong>Democraten 66<\/strong> (from 24 to 9 seats) and the Christian Democrats of <strong>Christian Democratic Appeal <\/strong>(from 15 to 5). A feat\u00a0for the new center-right <b>New Social Contract<\/b> formation, NSC, which came in\u00a0fourth with 12.8 percent and 20 seats. Also noteworthy is the advance of the <strong>Country Civic Movement<\/strong> BBB &#8211; a populist party that advocates farmers&#8217; interests &#8211; with 7 seats (+6 from last term). In addition, another eight\u00a0parties will be represented in the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>There are 15 political formations in the Dutch Chamber. From the start, negotiations to form a majority and\u00a0choose the Prime Minister have been an uphill battle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/07\/the-netherlands-new-government-negotiations-stalling-but-not-over-yet-for-wilders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"_blank noopener\">due to cross-vetoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There will now be a debate in the Lower House to see if the parties involved in negotiations, PVV, VVD, BBB, and NSC, can reach an understanding with a different premier or if everything has stalled. The goal is to secure a majority of at least 76 out of 150 seats in the <em>Tweede Kamer <\/em>(the lower house of the Dutch national parliament).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can become prime minister only if all the coalition parties support it. 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