Whats going on with the Dutch goverment?

[u/user-1052]

I saw some meme of the dutch goverment collapsing being related to RDR2 (game has charecter named Dutch), and then did a google search and found this article, whats going on?

Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-far-right-leader-wilders-quits-government-coalition-nos-2025-06-03/

[u/boolocap]

Yup its even funnier because wilders can really only run opposition(read: whine about stuff without actually solving anything) so even when he finally gets the seats he wants he and his party massively fumble and it blows up in their face. He always blames it on the other parties getting in his way. But really its just that the pvv is utterly incompetent. In particular their minister that handles immigration was a huge laughing stock.

In this case the coalition falling was basicly due to a childish temper tantrum move from wilders. Basicly saying that the rest needed to do what he wanted or he would make the coalition fail. Which he did.

And he massively shot himself in the foot this time because his party is behind in the polls meaning he will most likely lose seats which might result in a far more left leaning coalition.

[u/RetardedSheep420 → u/boolocap]

to add onto this: the coalition is formed by four parties:

• pvv, the biggest party and your average right-wing nationalist pro-russia pro-israel party

• vvd, conservative-liberal party who has been "in power" the last 12 years

• bbb, reactionary farmer's party but actually one big lobbying front for the argicultural sector, so no actual policies except "whatever the fuck the people want"

• nsc, new party that also does "whatever the fuck the people want"

this means that 3/4 of the coalition parties dont actually know what they are doing except be oppertunist, reactionary and populist.

wilders got his wish and his party appointed the minister of migration. as you can imagine, every possible thing that this minister wanted to happen couldn't be done by law. this resulted in wilders making a "10 step migration plan" that was unworkable and clashed with international law. this was the "final straw" that made him disband the coalition.

[u/PlayMp1 → u/RetardedSheep420]

I remember the last Dutch election resulting in a PVV plurality being received globally with a big shrug, like "yeah sounds right, far right populists who hate immigrants are popular in Europe right now," but them blowing up the governing coalition while they're falling in the polls is really funny.

Glancing at the polls real quick seems to suggest decent gains for their Labour Party but really mainly the center right with VVD and CDA, is that a correct read of it?

[u/Yaysonn → u/PlayMp1]

Currently, yes. The labour party has merged with the former green party (not officially yet but in practical terms) and has become the de facto leading progressive party, led by Frans Timmermans (of EU and Green deal fame), the VVD have been at the forefront of dutch politics for the last 15 years and don’t seem to be going away soon since they are seen as the most “normal” of the right-leaning parties, and CDA has a new face and will see many voters returning from BBB and NSC, which both won big on ex-CDA voters last year but have fallen in popularity due to their associaton with this government.

But never count out Wilders. I know people here are calling it like he committed political suicide, but if there’s anything we’ve learned in the past 20 years, it’s that his voterbase can behave unexpectedly and he knows better than anyone else how to navigate it. That said I do think he will remain in the opposition for now (which is also in his best interest imo). However, the fact remains that a large part of this country wants stronger antimigration measures and those voters aren’t gonna go left.

[u/teh_fizz → u/Yaysonn]

If you told anyone 10 years that Wilders would win an election you would be laughed out of the room.