(NL Times) The new justice minister, Dilan Yeşilgöz, still has not received a response from PVV leader Geert Wilders, after she tried to call him about a tweet in which he critically mentioned her Turkish-Kurdish origin. “A VVD member of Turkish descent at Justice. And let’s hope she doesn’t lift my security detail, because they would of course prefer to see me disappear below the grass,” the PVV leader tweeted on December 30.
“I called him the day after,” said the new minister after the first Council of Ministers of the Rutte IV cabinet. “On the night itself, I was still a bit too grumpy,” she added. “But I didn’t catch him.” When Wilders did not answer, she sent him a message via WhatsApp. “But he didn’t call back. No response.”
The VVD minister understands that Wilders, who has been guarded for years because of threats, was concerned about a “changing of the guard” at the Ministry of Justice and Security.
