Geert Wilders has cast doubt on the future of the coalition after a stormy meeting on Monday evening. The PVV leader, whose ant-Islam party is the biggest in the four-party coalition, met with frustration during talks about his latest asylum and immigration plans.
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Wilders characterised the talks as "not a very nice conversation" and resumed his list of ten demands on asylum and immigration. These requests, released last a public request on Monday, include the cessation of all asylum procedures, temporarily pausing family reunifications, freezing the construction of new asylum centers, and permitting the Netherlands to deport dual nationals suspected of criminal activity.
VVD, NSC, and BBB criticized these plans as short on policy detail.
There is now a 'responsibility falls there' moment for PVV's asylum minister Marjolein Faber, who VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz has previously complained was doing nothing. "I believe that things need to happen now, that they need to happen quickly," Wilders said. But he conceded that there was no signed agreement so far and also cautioned that a crisis could arise if the support from coalition leaders fails to come on board.
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Yesilgöz and NSC leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven advise Wilders to present his demands to the Tweede Kamer. But Wilders refused, arguing that the demands must be part of the coalition agreement to guarantee that the support will be binding. "If you want to be sure that a minister gets something, you have to arrange for it to come into the outline agreement," Wilders said.
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