Harm Beertema, an MP for the anti-Islam PVV, has likened the left-wing green party GroenLinks to supporters of Pol Pot, leader of the Khymer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and is held to be responsible for over two million deaths.

Beertema and GroenLinks MP Jesse Klaver clashed in parliament on Thursday over Beertema’s announcement earlier this week that he is drawing up a motion to force pupils to address their teachers using the formal U form, rather than the familiar je.
That idea was heavily criticised by MPs who said PVV parliamentarians should first improve the way they address their colleagues in parliament.