PVV releases election program: ‘country without headscarfs, but with traditional Dutch coziness’

(NL Times) The Freedom Party (PVV) presented its election program on Saturday. The party’s points of view are explained in over 50 pages, with keywords such as culture and traditions, care and safety, and climate realism.

In the preface, the party leader Geert Wilders writes that his party is proud of its own culture. “We will not let ourselves be talked into racism.” He wants to return to “a country without headscarves, but with traditional Dutch coziness, such as the Sinterklaas tradition with Zwarte Piet.”

The PVV wants to “de-Islamize” the Netherlands. Among other things, it wants to stop the spread of “Islamic ideology.” The party wants to close the borders to “fortune seekers and immigrants from Islamic countries.” There must be a “Ministry of Immigration, Remigration, and De-Islamization,” and people with dual nationality should no longer have the right to vote, argues the election program. Temporary asylum permits for Syrian refugees should be withdrawn.

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