Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders to join informal talks about forming next Dutch Cabinet - Winnipeg Free Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders emerged Saturday as a possible member of the next Dutch government after the centrist Christian Democrats agreed to informal talks with Wilders and the free market party that won recent Dutch elections.
“I am very happy … I hope we can sit at the table as soon as possible,” Wilders told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “It is positive news.”
The free-market VVD party emerged from the inconclusive June 9 election with the most seats, but it has so far been unable to forge a coalition that can command a majority in the 150-seat lower house of Parliament.
The party had held two weeks of closed-door talks with the leaders of the Labor Party, the Green Left and the centrist D66, but they fell apart Tuesday.