Geert Wilders finds it absolutely ridiculous that Dilan yesilgöz says he does not want to govern with the PVV. That, he says, does not respect the Netherlands. "She is letting down her own voters," Wilders said. And not just her own voters, but a very large part of all voters.
"I find it very disappointing," Wilders said before the cameras of all the major media. "It is also not what the VVD voters want. They overwhelmingly want a center-right cabinet." This is indeed true. Almost 90% of all VVD voters want a center-right cabinet and want their VVD to be part of it officially.
Of course, Wilders is not giving up hope just yet. Yesterday he appointed a scout, PVV Senator Gom van Striem. Van Striem is an experienced man. His task is to look emphatically for a possibility of putting together a right-wing cabinet.
"The Netherlands is waiting, at least millions of Dutch people, including Ms. Yesilgöz's supporters, for a center-right cabinet. It is really disappointing that now she herself, before negotiations have even started, says she does not want to be part of that."
"That's her choice, but it's something the Netherlands doesn't really respect," Wilders continued. "There are not even negotiations yet. To indicate even before the negotiations that you are in defiance of what your own voters want [...], with that she is largely abandoning her own voters."
"What the VVD voter expected and what the VVD voter wants is a center-right majority cabinet," the PVV leader said later in the interview. This would have to include the VVD itself, the PVV and a number of other parties "to solve problems such as immigration. They are not doing that now. I don't think the VVD voter understands any of this."
Yet Wilders is not entirely hostile to Yesilgöz's remarks about "constructive tolerance." He calls that a "bright spot." But, he adds, "then of course there has to be the possibility of that. "I am curious what possibilities he sees for that, whether that is a real proposal or whether that is just boilerplate."
That, of course, is a very good point. Yesilgöz may well be totally bluffing. But we will see that this week. Because Wilders will have to come up with a possible coalition in which parties like BBB, FVD, SGP and JA21 are also part of . With all those parties together, with the tacit support of the VVD, you end up with a narrow majority (as PVV will almost certainly end up with 38 seats due to the distribution of the residual seats, not 37 that everyone is talking about now).
Then on top of that comes NSC who may want to "partially" tolerate, meaning on certain topics.
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It is now not only up to the VVD, but also to Wilders and his PVV to look at ALL the possibilities. We know that all those leftist parties are not going to do business with the PVV and the "center parties" NSC and VVD overwhelmingly prefer not to either, at least not in an official capacity.
So then we have to look to other parties on the right, which is actually quite good, of course: it makes a virtue of necessity.