AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The resignation of two Dutch ministers gives a further boost to the populist far-right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders ahead of March 18 provincial elections that threaten to destabilise the centre-right government.
Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his deputy, State Secretary Fred Teeven, resigned on Monday after acknowledging they had misled parliament about the facts surrounding a settlement with a drug kingpin in 2001.
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