Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose Liberals remain the largest group in parliament, repeated that he wants Wilders?s party, known as the PVV in Dutch, to be excluded the from coalition talks.
Wilders, whose Freedom Party gained five extra seats in the lower house in The Hague to become the second-largest, told Liberal Health Minister Edith Schippers, who?s leading the first informal talks, on Monday that barring the Freedom Party from the coalition talks would be undemocratic.
Geert Wilders said he still wants his anti-Islam Freedom Party to be part of talks on a new coalition government in the Netherlands, striking a defiant tone after his failure to make significant gains in last week?s elections as informal talks got under way.
The Liberals took 33 seats in the 150-member chamber, followed by Wilders?s party on 20 seats.
Geert Wilders speaks to members of the media after casting his vote in the Dutch general election in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 15, 2017.
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