It is a gamble that Geert Wilders may live to regret. Increasingly frustrated by his coalition partners’ unwillingness to embrace his promised “strictest asylum policy in Europe”, the Dutch far-right leader brought down the government.
Wilders’ calculation, if it is more than a fit of political pique, appears simple: if he can turn snap elections this autumn into a referendum on immigration and asylum, his Freedom party (PVV) can win them – and he might even become the Netherlands’ prime minister.
