Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders pulled his Freedom Party out of the Netherlands' ruling coalition, collapsing the government and likely triggering a snap election. Wilders left the coalition over the refusal of his three coalition partners to agree to his plans to curb migration, including closing the border to asylum seekers and temporarily halting family reunification. The move will likely trigger a new ballot, which otherwise would have been held in 2027, and Prime Minister Dick Schoof is expected to resign and a caretaker government will be appointed to run operations in the interim.

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