Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof stepped down from his role on Tuesday after disagreements over immigration proposals led to far-right leader Geert Wilders withdrawing his party from the ruling coalition.

Earlier in the day, Wilders said in a CNBC-translated post on the X social media platform that his Party for Freedom (PVV) party would be departing over the alliance's lack of support for their asylum proposal.

"We had no choice. I promised the voter the strictest asylum policy ever, but that was not granted to you," he said in a separate Google-translated comments on X.

The PVV won a landslide victory in the Netherlands' general election in 2023, knocking former Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party off the top spot. Despite the victory, the country's four major parties chose the former

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