25 March 2014

Senators stick by Wilders as anti-Moroccan chant row rumbles on

Senators representing the anti-immigration PVV in the upper house of the Dutch parliament continue to fully support Geert Wilders despite the anti-Moroccan chanting of last week.

Wilders has refused to apologise for leading supporters in an anti-Moroccan chant in the wake of Wednesday’s local elections.

Two MPs, one MEP and a handful of local and provincial councillors have broken ties with the PVV since Wilders asked his supporters in The Hague ‘and do you want more or fewer Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands?’ To which the crowd chanted ‘fewer, fewer, fewer’. [DutchNews.nl] Read more