Dutch ruling conservatives say ready to govern with Geert Wilders – Allah's Willing Executioners
The Netherlands’ ruling liberal conservatives of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared Friday they would be ready to govern alongside Geert Wilders’ far right movement after an early general election in November.
Dutch voters will elect a new parliament on November 22 after last week’s collapse of Rutte’s four-party coalition led by his centre-right VVD over a bitter argument about asylum seeker policy.
He said last month he would quit politics altogether after 13 years at the helm which made him his country’s longest-serving prime minister.
Rutte told a reporter Friday he could confirm declarations by incoming VVD head Dilan Yesilgoz to the ANP news agency that the party was not ruling out Wilders’ populist nationalist Party for Freedom being included in a coalition.
“Yes, I completely agree,” said Rutte laconically when pressed on the issue as Yesilgoz, Turkish-born outgoing justice minister, prepares to lead the VVD into the poll.
Wilders dubbed the development “good news …