Former Dutch intelligence chief, Dick Schoof is set to be sworn in as Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government promising to implement the Netherlands’ strictest ever asylum and immigration policy.
The 67-year-old independent candidate succeeds Mark Rutte, who is set to become the next secretary-general of NATO after 14 years in office in The Hague.
Traditionally, the leader of the largest party would be favorite to become Dutch prime minister But the anti-Islam and Eurosceptic Wilders, 60, renounced the role to appease coalition partners from the Famers Party (BBB), the liberal-conservative VVD and the new anti-corruption NSC, whose leaders also agreed not to stand for PM.
Instead, they settled on Schoof as a compromise to be sworn in by King Willem-Alexander.
