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2024-05-16 Europe
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Geert Wilders’ right-wing party reaches provisional deal for hard-right Dutch coalition
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[IsraelTimes] Anti-Islam firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
took the most votes in recent election but had difficulty forming a government; a technocratic prime minister is expected to be brought in
Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other Dutch party leaders said Wednesday they have brokered a provisional coalition deal in a move that brings closer a government driven by the hard right in yet another European Union
 ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
nation.
The party leaders said that they will put the text to their party backbenchers before a full government deal can be announced. The parties still have to agree on a prime minister, who is expected to be a technocrat from outside the party structures.
With hard-right and populist parties now part of or leading a half dozen governments in the 27-nation bloc, they appear positioned to make gains in the June 6-9 election for the European Parliament.
"We have a deal among negotiators, and we will return to the position of prime minister at a later moment," Wilders said. He has reluctantly acknowledged he will not succeed Mark Rutte and instead has pushed for an outsider.
The name of a prime minister was still elusive, and even though Wilders won the election, he was considered by many too risky to be the national leader.
Speculation has centered on Ronald Plasterk, from the Labor Party, who shot back to prominence this year when he became the first "scout" to hold talks with politicians about possible coalitions.
Wilders has called Plasterk a "creative spirit" with political experience, but who is also distanced enough from the current political scene.
"If you want a government to succeed, you need a prime minister that unites," said Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the centrist New Social Contract party. Outgoing Prime Minister Rutte’s center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the populist Farmer Citizen Movement are also in the coalition deal.
Wilders’ Party for Freedom won 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament, and the four parties combined hold a comfortable majority of 88 seats.
After two decades in the opposition, Wilders seemed to have a shot at leading a nation that long prided itself on its tolerant society, but he has stepped aside in the interest of pushing through most of his agenda.
From Finland to Croatia, hard-line right parties are part of European governing coalitions, and hard-right or populist prime ministers are leading Hungary, Slovakia and Italia.
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