Party leaders continued their war of words on Friday, with just four days of campaigning to go before the general election on June 9. In particular the PVV came under fire.

PVV leader Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Telegraaf that Labour party leader Job Cohen had endangered Wilders’ personal safety by saying he was a danger to the state.
Cohen said earlier the rule of law was not in safe hands with Wilders and his performance could endanger society.
‘It might be going too far to say he was encouraging it but…. he did say it,’ Wilders said in the interview. ‘And there are always nutcases out there who think ‘we need to be rid of him’,’ Wilders said.
Later Wilders told news agency ANP the Labour party could itself be endangering the rule of law because it had allowed 30,000 failed asylum seekers to stay in the country after all.

Dykes
CDA stalwart and foreign minister Maxime Verhagen accused the VVD Liberal party of cosying up to the PVV. ‘The PVV will retreat behind the dykes,’ he said. That is bad for the economy which is 70% dependant on foreign trade, Verhagen said.
VVD leader Mark Rutte has refused to rule out a right-wing alliance with the PVV although he has criticised the party on the economy.
But Verhagen denied it was strange that the CDA has refused to rule out forming a coalition with the PVV. There is a difference between ‘cosying up’ and ‘not ruling out,’ he told Nos tv.
GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema called on Rutte to give a strong guarantee that ‘the human rights abuses the PVV is proposing will never come into practice under a VVD-led government’.
Decent society
Labour leader Job Cohen told a radio show on Friday he had opted to resign as Amsterdam mayor because of the need to combat the PVV and to move towards ‘a decent society in which everyone counts’.
He too made a ‘moral appeal’ to the CDA and VVD not to form a coalition with the PVV.
According to the latest polls, a CDA, VVD, PVV coalition would have around 78 of the 150 seats in parliament.