THE HAGUE: Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders’ already difficult task of forming a government became even harder on Friday, when the head of the ruling party immediately snubbed a role in his Cabinet.
The Netherlands is under scrutiny in Europe and further afield after Wilders’s PVV Freedom Party touched off a political earthquake by comfortably winning the general election on Wednesday.
But Wilders’ dream of leading a far-right coalition as prime minister received a major blow when the liberal VVD of departing leader Mark Rutte declined to join him.
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