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

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