An alliance with Wilders is a no go, says CDA number two Ab Klink

Wednesday 01 September 2010

The cabinet negotiations between the CDA, VVD and PVV were in tatters on Wednesday night following the publication of a letter from CDA negotiator Ab Klink saying he cannot be involved in a coalition with Geert Wilders.

A 'political alliance with the PVV is an impassable road,' Klink says in a letter to party leader Maxime Verhagen, published by Nos tv.

'That is really the definite conclusion for me personally,' Klink says in the letter which has been published on the Nos website.

Crisis talks

On Tuesday, the CDA began crisis talks about the prospective government alliance with Geert Wilders' anti-Islam PVV. Those talks continued on an individual basis with the party's 21 MPs, including Klink, on Wednesday.

In the letter, Klink writes that Wilders was planning to distance himself from the coalition partners when a new government agreement was presented to the press.

'He states he will come with a completely different story than the VVD and CDA at the presentation of the accord,' Klink wrote. 'He suggested colleagues would look the other way at that moment and predicted the leaders of the coalition partners would blush.'

Support

'No one should expect a unifying vision,' Klink wrote. And in return for his support for €18bn worth of government spending cuts, Wilders will demand much tougher immigration and integration rules, Klink says.

Wilders has already made it clear he will continue to speak his mind about Islam despite his party's prospective role in propping up a minority government.

Party leader Maxime Verhagen has declined to comment on the letter. 'I don't give up easily,' Nos tv quoted him as saying.

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