But something has changed in the meantime. The informateur has evidently been unable to cobble together a working coalition of any combination that excludes the PVV, so now the unthinkable has become thinkable.
According to Dutch News:
CDA Agrees to Talks About Talks on a Right-Wing Government- - - - - - - - -
The Christian Democrats have agreed to enter talks about talks on forming a right-wing government with the free market Liberals and anti-Islam PVV.
The party’s 20 MPs met on Saturday and gave their unanimous go ahead to party leader Maxime Verhagen to take part in informal talks with the VVD and PVV.
On Friday, new cabinet negotiator Ruud Lubbers called on the three parties to meet informally to look at the options. Earlier, the CDA refused to join because of the PVV’s extreme stance on Islam.
Principles
‘We have decided to fall in with negotiator Lubber’s request,’ Verhagen said after the meeting. ‘But we will not budge from our principles. Freedom of religion is for everyone…’ he said.
PVV leader Geert Wilders wants the introduction of a tax on Muslim headscarves, a ban on the Koran and ethnic registration. He currently faces charges of inciting religious and ethnic hatred.
The exploratory talks between the three leaders will take place without Lubbers, to emphasis the informality. No date and time as yet been set.
Majority
Verhagen and Liberal leader Mark Rutte had dinner together on Friday night.
If the three parties go on to form a new government, it would control just 76 of the 150 seats in parliament and have no majority in the upper house, or senate.
Now the big question: if the PVV does indeed become part of a coalition government, what ministry will be given to Geert Wilders?
Hat tip: C. Cantoni.
3 comments:
"They have agreed to talks about talks."
This is the type of thing I expect to read about the USA/North Korea, Israel/any Muslims country, Greece/Turkey. How magnanimous of them. This is basically telling a very large part of the Netherlands that they will let them out of the ante-room for a brief audience. What unmitigated gall! And they dont even see it!
What post for Geert Wilders? If it is up to the Queen, think something akin to the Ministry of Silly Walks, take it or leave it... -S-
But something has changed in the meantime. The informateur has evidently been unable to cobble together a working coalition of any combination that excludes the PVV, so now the unthinkable has become thinkable.
The only thing that has changed is merely attitudes based in Realpolitik whereby the other parties have realized that their own reach is foreshortened if they do not let Wilders' PVV into the political tent. It is the sole reason for this and nowhere does any fairness or respect enter into the equation.
‘We have decided to fall in with negotiator Lubber’s request,’ Verhagen said after the meeting. ‘But we will not budge from our principles. Freedom of religion is for everyone…’ he said. [emphasis added]
Even if it means extending that "Freedom of religion" to those for whom such a concept is entirely without meaning. Hell, why stop there? The entire notion of Freedom, all by itself, is totally alien to Islam.
Most important of all, as spackle noted above, is recognizing how this whole debacle reflects a disturbing level of contempt that Holland's government obviously feels toward some 25% of their own electorate.
To further agree, I also concur that these budding Social Engineers do not even comprehend or feel obliged to notice the enormous hubris they are displaying through such wilfull ignorance of what Dutch voters have so clearly demanded.
This cannot be allowed to stand and, if it has not already happened, Geert Wilders' mandate should be expanded to include the forceful ejection of those who would disenfranchise native Hollanders, be they Muslim colonists or their Politically Correct Multiculturalist Vampire Elite™
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