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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Dutch centre-right party rules out coalition with ‘unbelievably untrustworthy’ Wilders

Yeşilgöz at podium with arms in air on 4 June
VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz: ‘He simply runs away when things get difficult … Geert Wilders is only interested in Geert Wilders.’ Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock

The Netherlands’s biggest centre-right party has ruled out entering another coalition with Geert Wilders as its leader called him “an unbelievably untrustworthy partner” and a “quitter” who “puts his own interests above those of the country”.

In a significant blow to the far-right firebrand’s hopes of returning to power, Dilan Yeşilgöz said late on Monday that her party would not enter another government with Wilders after snap elections due on 29 October.

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