Dutch right-wingers leave party over anti-Moroccan chant


  • World
  • Sunday, 23 Mar 2014

A protester is pictured through a Moroccan national flag during a protest against Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch hard-right Freedom Party, in Amsterdam March 22, 2014. REUTERS/Cris Toala Olivares

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders has been hit by a further prominent resignation from his party after leading an anti-Moroccan chant, deepening the crisis for his Party for Freedom (PVV), which had been leading in opinion polls.

Laurence Stassen, who heads the PVV in the European Parliament, announced her resignation late on Friday in a statement circulated by Dutch news agency ANP.

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