Geert Wilders gives up hope of being Dutch PM due to lack of support

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Far-right Freedom party finished first in elections late last year but well short of a majority in the 150-seat parliament

Geert Wilders has conceded he will not be the next prime minister. Photograph: SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Imagesby finishing first in elections late last year, has conceded that he will not be the next prime minister because his potential coalition partners do not back him.

The populist PVV won 37 seats – far more than forecast but well short of a majority in the 150-seat parliament – in the November election and has since been holding exploratory coalition talks with three potential rightwing allies.Biden and Trump clinch presidential nominations on another deeply strange day

One partner, the newly formed NSC, which campaigned on a platform of “good governance” and “doing politics differently”, said last month it would not enter a formal coalition. At the time the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper described the talks as characterised by “poison, mutual sniping and gossiping”.

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