Reuters. Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced his resignation on Tuesday (June 3), most likely ushering in a snap election, hours after anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders quit the right-wing coalition for failing to back tougher migration policies.
Ministers from Wilders' PVV party will leave the cabinet, while the others will continue for now as a caretaker government.
Any election is unlikely to be held before October, and the fractured political landscape means formation of a new government may well take months.
Anger over migration and the high cost of living are boosting the far right and widening divisions in Europe, just as it needs unity to deal effectively with a hostile Russia and an unpredictable and combative U.S. president in the form of Donald Trump.
Schoof said he would hand his resignation to King Willem-Alexander later on Tuesday.
