Geert Wilders


Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician and the founder and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom . Wilders is the Parliamentary group leader of his party in the Dutch House of Representatives. In the formation in 2010 of the Rutte cabinet, a minority cabinet of VVD and CDA, he actively participated in the negotiations, resulting in a support agreement between the PVV and these parties, but withdrew his support in April 2012, citing disagreements with the cabinet on proposed budget cuts. Wilders is best known for his criticism of Islam his views have made him a controversial figure in the Netherlands and abroad, and since 2004 he receives permanent personal protection by armed bodyguards.

Wilders was born in the city of Venlo, in the southeast Netherlands. He is the youngest of four children, and was raised Catholic. He was born to a Dutch father and a mother born in colonial Indonesia, whose ancestors were Dutch Indonesian. His father worked as a manager for the printing and copying manufacturing company Oc, and had remained hidden from the Germans during the Second World War an experience so traumatizing that he refused to physically enter Germany even forty years later.

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