Victory for Geert Wilders and PVV in Dutch minority ruling coalition - Hoofdinhoud

After weeks of discussions among the leading Dutch political parties following the June 9th general elections, a minority conservative ruling coalition has been formed. This gives Geert Wilders' PVV Freedom party some important leverage. This is largely due to the significant seat tallies, 24 that the PVV garnered in the new Hague Parliament, as well as the significant continuing rise in Wilders' and the PVV popularity among voters in the Netherlands. That popularity, we believe, is based on voters concerns on the threat of Islamization to Holland, basic Dutch and Western Judeo-Christian values. That rise in anti-Islamization sentiments also reflects the importance of Wilders' recent launch of the Interrnational Freedom Alliance that we have posted on The Iconoclast. Perhaps it will embolden a rising number of American Congressional candidates who have adopted an anti-Islamization plank in their platforms to press ahead with this issue during their campaigns in the upcoming mid-term elections this fall. Perhaps we may even see Wilders coming to the US during the campaign season to meet meet with some of the prominent anti-Islamization Congressional contenders. Baron Bodissey at the Gates of Vienna (GoV) blog posted a translation of the announcement of the new ruling Dutch coalition, yesterday. Many thanks to RB for bringing this to our attention.

Here is the GoV report:

Geert Wilders is “Very Pleased”

As we reported a few hours ago, the VVD, the CDA, and the PVV have reached an agreement on the formation of a minority right-wing government in the Netherlands. It will consist of the CDA and the VVD, and be supported by the PVV.

Further details may be found at the PVV website. Many thanks to our Flemish correspondent VH for the translation:

Declaration PVV, VVD, CDA

Wilders ‘very pleased’ with the right minority government (from AD.nl)

The three parties VVD, PVV, and CDA disagree about the nature and character of Islam. The dividing line is in the characterization of the Islam as either a religion or a (political) ideology.

Parties accept each other’s different views on this subject and will also act on this based on their own views.

However, there is much that binds the parties: making the Netherlands stronger, safer, and more prosperous is the common goal and starting point.

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Therefore — accepting each other’s differences of opinion and fully assigning to one another the freedom of expression with regard to the differences of opinion — it is agreed that the PVV will support elements of the yet-to-be-negotiated government agreement from a position of support. The VVD and CDA will on their part honor the wishes of the PVV in the support agreement to be settled.

In any case the, such support agreement arrangements should settle the details of the measures for budget cuts and firm agreements on immigration, integration and asylum, safety, and better care for the elderly, whereby it is clear that for the PVV the willingness to support the budget cuts is linked to the content of the agreements to be settled in the fields of immigration, integration and asylum, safety and elderly care.

Mark Rutte [VVD]

Geert Wilders [PVV]

Maxime Verhagen [CDA]

Source: Newenglishreview.org