The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) will leave the Dutch government if most of its ten new migration proposals are not added to the coalition agreement, party leader Geert Wilders stated on Sunday via social media platform X.
Last week, Wilders unveiled a ten-point plan to halt asylum in the Netherlands, threatening to withdraw from the government if the demands were not met, although he did not specify a timeline for this.
“Let me be crystal clear,” Wilders declared on Sunday. “If the majority of our proposals from the asylum ten-point plan are not adopted by the coalition and implemented by the cabinet as soon as possible, the PVV will exit this coalition.” Wilders is encouraged by an online poll indicating, according to him, that a large majority of voters from all coalition parties support nearly all points of the asylum plan.
Experts have already described Wilders’ proposals as largely unfeasible and unlawful. For example, he wants the Netherlands to refuse asylum seekers at the border, which is not permissible under international and national law. The same applies to halting family reunification.
The Dutch government will discuss the issue on Monday. The Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) has expressed a positive stance towards the PVV plans, while the centrist NSC party and the liberals of VVD have reacted calmly. They suggest that PVV minister for Asylum and Migration, Marjolein Faber, would do better to focus on implementing the existing migration agreements in the coalition accord.
