7 months after the election
Netherlands: Most extreme government sworn in
More than seven months after the victory of radical right-wing populist Geert Wilders in the Dutch parliamentary elections, the most extreme government in the country's history has been sworn in.
On Tuesday, King Willem-Alexander swore in former secret service chief Dick Schoof as the successor to long-serving Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose plans for his right-wing conservative cabinet include implementing the "toughest" asylum policy of all time.
In a ceremony at the Huis ten Bosch residential palace near The Hague, all ministers and state secretaries took either an oath ("so help me God Almighty") or a corresponding secular vow before the monarch.
Geert Wilders shapes coalition, but holds no office
The four-party coalition is largely controlled by Wilders, although he is not a member of the cabinet himself. The new alliance partners of the Wilders-led Party for Freedom (PVV) had made his resignation from office a condition for their participation in the government.
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