Geert Wilders has ratcheted up his threat to bring down the government over asylum, warning that his PVV party will leave the coalition unless the other parties adopt six of the 10 points in his latest plan for stricter immigration rules.

Wilders issued his warning in a tweet on social media site X at the weekend, after other coalition leaders had given a lukewarm response to his press conference last Monday.

“Let me be crystal clear,” Wilders wrote. “If the majority of our proposals from the 10-point plan on asylum are not accepted by the coalition – and added to the outline coalition agreement – and enacted asap by the cabinet, the PVV will withdraw from this coalition.”

Wilders also published polls showing a majority of respondents supported his ideas, which include stepping up border patrols, blocking family reunifications for asylum seekers and deporting foreigners who are convicted of offences.

Legal experts have warned that many of the plans conflict with European human rights laws or the UN refugee convention of 1951, such as sending all Syrian refugees home within six months even though the government has not declared Syria a safe country.

Others, such as abolishing the so-called “spreading law” which requires local councils to accommodate a minimum number of asylum seekers, are already in the coalition agreement, but asylum minister Marjolein Faber has so far been unable to steer the relevant laws through parliament.

Laat ik glashelder zijn. Als het merendeel van onze voorstellen uit het tienpunten plan asiel niet worden overgenomen door de coalitie (en dus toegevoegd aan het Hoofdlijnenakkoord) en zsm uitgevoerd door het kabinet, dan stapt de PVV uit deze coalitie.

— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) June 1, 2025

The four coalition parties are holding talks on Monday to discuss Wilders’ plans, but the leaders of VVD and NSC insisted they would not renegotiate the coalition agreement.

“Putin’s friends”

VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz last week said Wilders should “phone his own minister” if he was unhappy with the progress on asylum policy, a reference to Faber’s failure so far to pass three bills to reform the system.

She also criticised Wilders for sending his tweets from Budapest, where he was attending the CPAC conference of right-wing nationalist parties, hosted by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán.

“I think that as the leader of the biggest party in the Netherlands, your primary focus should be on the security of the Dutch people. And at the moment the safety of the Dutch people is being threatened by [Russian president Vladimir] Putin,” she said.

“If in the same week you threaten to blow up the cabinet for reasons that are hard to explain and then spend the weekend living it up with a bunch of Putin’s friends, I think that’s utterly irresponsible.”

NSC leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven said her party was not prepared to shift further on asylum after agreeing on a package of stricter asylum measures last October.

“We have our principles, we have our lines and we are not afraid to perish,” she said.

Caroline van der Plas, leader of the farmers’ party BBB, she said the parties were “certainly willing to talk” about Wilders’ plans.