Two Days of Wilders Cabaret in Lower House
THE HAGUE, 23/09/11 - The leftwing opposition parties urged Prime Minister Mark Rutte yesterday to demand apologies from Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders after the latter told him to "cool it".
On the second and last day of the Lower House debate on the cabinet's 2012 budget the opposition parties reacted with shock when Wilders told Rutte to "cool it". They were having a discussion on whether or not a PVV MP had called Turkish prime minister Erdogan an Islamic monkey - Wilders said his MP had just paraphrased a Dutch proverb (the monkey comes out of the sleeve) while Rutte said any monkey remark was inappropriate.
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