Wilders Wants Freedom Party to Be Part of Dutch Coalition Talks
- Discussions on new government have started with 13 parties
- Premier Rutte repeats he doesn’t want to govern with Wilders
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Geert Wilders said he still wants his anti-Islam Freedom Party to be part of talks on a new coalition government in the Netherlands, striking a defiant tone after his failure to make significant gains in last week’s elections as informal talks got under way.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose Liberals remain the largest group in parliament, repeated that he wants Wilders’s party, known as the PVV in Dutch, to be excluded the from coalition talks.