Dutch election winner Geert Wilders: An anti-Islam firebrand known as the Dutch Donald Trump

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00:00 With his aggressive anti-immigration and anti-Islam rhetoric, Gert Wilders is set to shake up

00:06 Dutch politics.

00:08 The veteran firebrand placed anti-Islam policies at the core of his party, PVV, founded in

00:14 2004.

00:16 Wilders has since vowed to stop a quote "Islamic invasion", has held competitions for cartoons

00:22 of the prophet Mohammed and has been convicted for insulting Moroccans.

00:27 Brussels wants to inundate us with third world immigrants, mostly from Islamic countries.

00:35 It wants to distribute these immigrants all over the European Union and that, my friends,

00:43 will be a disaster.

00:44 A ban on mosques, Islamic schools, Qurans and headscarves from government buildings

00:49 are among the proposals on his PVV manifesto.

00:53 But he sought to tone down his anti-Islamic rhetoric in the run-up to the election.

00:58 Immigration was a key theme of the campaign after the previous government collapsed in

01:02 a disagreement over asylum rules, with Wilders taking a hard-line stance.

01:08 The PVV has pledged to deport illegal immigrants and proposes a freeze on asylum.

01:16 The hope is that people get their country back, that we make sure that the Netherlands

01:22 is for the Dutch again, that we will limit the asylum tsunami and migration.

01:31 A self-proclaimed fan of Hungary's Viktor Orban, Wilders is a staunch Eurosceptic and

01:36 wants to hold a binding referendum to leave the EU.

01:40 He has called for the Netherlands to significantly reduce its payments to Brussels and to block

01:44 the entrance of any new members.

01:47 Unlike many other European leaders, Wilders wants to stop arming Ukraine, saying the Netherlands

01:52 needs the weapons to defend itself.

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