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

Former intelligence chief to become Dutch PM as part of ‘business cabinet’

Dick Schoof Geert Wilders Freedom BBB European Union NOS PVV VVD
Three men and one woman sit around a wooden table. Wilders, with his trademark blond hair swept back from his face is side-on. Caroline van der Plas, the BBB leader, sits with her back to the camera. She has curly black hair. Opposite her are Schoof and another man, both wearing suits. All four are smiling and have their hands clasped and resting on the table.
Dick Schoof, second from right, with the leaders of the coalition’s parties, including the Freedom party’s Geert Wilders, right. Photograph: Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP/Getty Images

A top justice ministry official and former intelligence chief is to be the new Dutch prime minister, five months after Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party (PVV) finished first in parliamentary elections.

Dick Schoof, the highest official at the justice and security ministry, was formally nominated as the preferred candidate by the four parties making up the Netherlands’ right-wing coalition government on Tuesday.

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