
Seven lawmakers quit Geert Wilders' far-right political party on Tuesday in a stunning setback for the Dutch anti-Islam firebrand who narrowly missed out on winning last year's national elections.
Wilders, sometimes known as the Dutch Donald Trump, is the longest-serving lawmaker in the lower house of the Dutch parliament and an ally of like-minded European politicians such as Italy's Giorgia Meloni, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the leader of France's National Rally leader Marine Le Pen.