- Title: Anti-Islam candidate Wilders frontrunner in upcoming Dutch election
- Date: 28th February 2017
- Summary: WILDERS STEPPING OUT OF VEHICLE WILDERS ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS / POLICEMAN STANDING BY WILDERS SHOWING SUITCASE WITH DUMMY DUTCH GUILDERS NOTES (THE NETHERLANDS' CURRENCY BEFORE IT ADOPTED THE EURO) DUMMY NOTES DEPICTING WILDERS' FACE SCHIPHOL, THE NETHERLANDS (FILE - 2016) (REUTERS) WILDERS ARRIVING AT COURTROOM
- Embargoed: 14th March 2017 10:12
- Keywords: Dutch election Wilders Rutte Islam
- Location: THE HAGUE, SCHIPHOL AND SPIJKENISSE, THE NETHERLANDS
- City: THE HAGUE, SCHIPHOL AND SPIJKENISSE, THE NETHERLANDS
- Country: Netherlands
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA00265FPHL3
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- Story Text: With a flare for the limelight - he wears his hair in an instantly recognisable platinum bleached-blond quiff - Geert Wilders is within a whisker of leading the largest party in the Dutch parliament after next month's elections.
Other parties have ruled out a coalition with him, viewing his policies as offensive or even unconstitutional.
This is likely to keep him out of government, especially since he was convicted in December of inciting discrimination for leading a crowd in a chant for "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!" Moroccans. Two weeks ago he repeated calls for a crackdown on "Moroccan scum."
Center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who once led a minority government that excluded Wilders but relied on his support, now says he will never work with him again.
The fragmented political landscape means a coalition government of four or more parties is all but inevitable. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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