The right -wing Dutch leader Khairat Wilders ends the government

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GEERT Wilders left the Dutch government, as the country drowned in a state of political uncertainty.

Wildz, which was the largest PVV Party in the coalition of four parties, said he could no longer support its failure to conduct strict procedures on asylum applications.

“There is no signature on our asylum plans, and there are no changes to the main coalition agreement. PVV leaves the coalition,” Wilders said on social media on Tuesday.

The Dutch parliament can now try to find a new alliance by a majority or call new elections.

The coalition government lasted 11 months and it was Rooming with frequent conflicts.

Wilders He was thwarted in his desire to be prime minister, with Dick Show, a former spy president who did not occupy an elected position, and assumed this role.

Last week, Wilders suggested a 10 -point plan to reduce immigration and demanded the signing of other leaders. It included the army’s use of patrols on the border, the closure of residence centers for refugees and the sending of many Syrian refugees, on the pretext that the country is now safe to return after the fall of Bashar al -Assad’s regime last year.

During the crisis talks on Monday and on Tuesday, the other three party leaders refused to approve the plans they said were illegal.

Dylan Namjouz, the coalition leader, the second largest coalition party, the liberal VVD, attacked “Just to do what he wants.” “We had a right -wing majority and all allowed it to go to his arrogance,” she told reporters.

His closest ally, Caroline van der Plus, of the farmer’s movement, said that Wilders is “irresponsible.”

“He has all the amnesty in his hand, yet he pulls the plug,” she told reporters in The Hague.

Wilders also called for a ban on family members who join the refugees already in the Netherlands.

Wilders received death threats When he made a movie in 2008, it connects the teachings of the Qur’an with terrorist attacks on September 11 and other atrocities. Since then, he lived in a safe house, and has a police guard and has often spreads threats against him online.

Wilders recently published in X a poll that showed that the majority of the Dutch wanted to ban Islam from the country.

Extreme right -wing movements throughout Europe have seized immigration as a cause, strongly in Germany, Poland, Austria, Portugal and Romania in the elections this year. The Carl Noruki, President of Poland, was elected Poland on Sunday.