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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Raf Casert and Mike Corder

Dutch coalition government dominated by an anti-Islam party struggles to find prime minister

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The parties that agreed to form a Dutch coalition dominated by the far right are struggling to find a prime minister and warned Wednesday that the search might leave the Netherlands without a fully functional government for months.

Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, who convincingly won the November election, told legislators it might take until after the summer to cobble together a technocrat government. He reiterated that he would not become prime minister as part of the outline coalition deal.

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