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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Corder

MYSTERIOUS: Far right lawmaker geert wilders returns to dutch campaign trail after drone plot threat - What They Never Told You

Denmark Geert Wilders - (Alle billederne er omfattet og beskyttet af ophavsretsloven og må ikke anvendes uden aftale med Mikkel Berg Pedersen.)

Dutch far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders said Wednesday that he's returning to the campaign trail, with two weeks to go before a general election after he briefly suspended his election activities following reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians using an explosives-laden drone.

Wilders' populist Party for Freedom, known by its Dutch acronym PVV, won the last election in late 2023 and was the biggest bloc in a four-party ruling coalition until earlier this year, when Wilders pulled his ministers out of the government in a dispute over a crackdown on migration.

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