Prominent VVD politician Frans Weisglas has called on his party’s leader Mark Rutte to publicly distance himself from Geert Wilders’ ‘discriminatory ideas’.

The VVD and CDA are to start talks on forming a new minority government next week which will have Wilders’ backing in parliament.
According to an official statement published on Friday, the three parties have decided not to form a cabinet together because of differences of opinion between the CDA and Wilders over Islam.
But Rutte has not made any public comments about Wilders’ anti-Islam policies. ‘I do not understand why he does not do so, and I am sorry about that as a fellow party member,’ Weisglas told a radio show on Saturday night.
Weisglas said he is pleased the PVV is not going to be part of the coalition. ‘I do not think a Liberal party like mine, the VVD, should work together with a party which systematically discriminates against an entire part of the population,’ he said.