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PVV leader Geert Wilders wants the Netherlands to introduce more and binding referendums in which citizens can have their say in policy. According to him, this is necessary because "time and again" the "political elite does exactly the opposite of what people want".
Wilders wrote this in an opinion piece in the Volksrkant on Thursday.
With these statements, Wilders is pointing to the sometimes fierce disagreements about the Netherlands sheltering asylum seekers. "The asylum crisis is a symptom of a far deeper malady", he wrote. "Namely a political elite that has lost touch with the people. Nowhere is it more evident than in the asylum debate. Most Dutch realize that mass immigration is not an enrichment but leads to loss of prosperity, security and identity."