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Geert Wilders: effort to form Netherlands coalition not off to ‘dream start’

Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders has said he is determined to be ‘prime minister of this beautiful country’. Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock

The far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders has admitted that he was not off to a “dream start” in his attempts to form a government, after a man he appointed to oversee coalition talks quit over fraud allegations before getting started in the role.

Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) look to have won almost a quarter of seats in the 150-seat Dutch parliament in last Wednesday’s elections, about 10 seats more than predicted.

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