Defeated Rival Offers Would-Be Dutch PM Wilders Hesitant Embrace

Geert Wilders edged a step closer to securing the majority he needs to form a working government after a center-right rival said it is prepared to lend him its parliamentary support, even while it ruled itself out of taking up seats in his cabinet.

The People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, or VVD, will support a center-right cabinet as “kind of a tolerating partner,” its leader Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius said in The Hague on Friday ahead of a meeting with other party heads in parliament.