(NL Times) Dutch far-right political party PVV is continuing to insist that the Cabinet must declare the asylum situation in the Netherlands to be a state of emergency, and use extreme powers to sidestep Parliament and force a much stricter approach to limit the number of asylum seekers coming into the country. Such emergency measures must be introduced “one way or another,” as agreed by the PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB in their coalition agreement, PVV leader Geert Wilders emphasized.
“If we don’t get that, the Cabinet will have a problem.” The use of the authoritarian approach is controversial, as many critics, including coalition party members and constitutional law experts, do not believe a true state of emergency exists. Wilders said it will be a “difficult story” if another method is chosen to arrive at asylum measures. “I don’t know if we will happily continue for much longer.”
