Frans Timmermans: 'Experience Shows that There Is Always Right-Wing Silo Football During Formations'

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Frans Timmermans wants his party to become "so big" that right-wing parties can't bypass GroenLinks-PvdA during the coalition formation. He said this during his election congress on Saturday afternoon in Ahoy. "We are the only alternative, remember that."

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At times, the GroenLinks/PvdA election congress seemed to focus more on Geert Wilders than on their own party. Both Jesse Klaver and party leader Frans Timmermans lashed out at the PVV and its leader, Geert Wilders. Timmermans, for example, compared Wilders to a drunken uncle at parties. On Sunday, Wilders responded on social media: "They're terrified of October 29th," he wrote, referring to the elections.