The Dutch ambassador in Pretoria, South Africa, has been told to ‘unlike’ a Facebook link to a website page entitled ‘no government supported by the PVV’, foreign minister Uri Rosenthal told MPs on Tuesday evening.

Ambassador Andre Haspels had put the link on his personal Facebook page. Rosenthal said in answer to questions from PVV parliamentarians that the ambassador ‘ had to refrain from making public statements of such a clearly political nature’ on his Facebook page.
The anti-Islam PVV, which supports the minority government on economic policy in return for tighter immigration controls, said the ambassador had disqualified himself from the job for supporting ‘political propaganda’.
The page on the website of anti-racism organisation Nederlands Bekent Kleur states that the Christian Democrats and Liberal VVD have accepted the ‘discriminatory standpoints of the undemocratic PVV’ in order to form a government.