AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders triggered a government crisis in the Netherlands on Tuesday by pulling his nationalist PVV party out of the right-wing government coalition.
Here’s a look at what scenarios could follow:
NEW ELECTIONS
Prime Minister Dick Schoof is likely to resign following Wilders’ unexpected move, which has left the coalition with only 51 seats in the 150-seat Lower House of parliament.
He is then expected to call for a new election, which is unlikely to be held before mid-October based on previous election cycles.
Wilders’ PVV won the last election in November 2023 with a surprisingly wide margin of 23% of the vote. Polls indicate he has lost some support since then, to about 20% of the vote, at par with the Labour/Green combination, the sec