Dutch centre-right party rules out coalition with ‘unbelievably untrustworthy’ Wilders

VVD joins other major political formations in dealing blow to far-right leader’s hope of return to power

The Netherlands’s biggest centre-right party has ruled out entering another coalition with Geert Wilders as its leader called him “an unbelievably untrustworthy partner” and a “quitter” who “puts his own interests above those of the country”.

In a significant blow to the far-right firebrand’s hopes of returning to power, Dilan Yeşilgöz said late on Monday that her party would not enter another government with Wilders after snap elections due on 29 October.

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