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Leaked Text Messages Reveal: Wilders Was Looking for an Excuse to Avoid Election Debates
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De Volkskrant analyzed app traffic from sources close to the PVV leader who say Wilders wanted to avoid election debates.
Geert Wilders didn't feel like participating in major election debates and asked confidants for an excuse to stay away. This is evident from newly leaked text messages from Wilders to his party colleague. "I don't feel like it (...) make up an excuse." The revelation is remarkable: rarely does anything come out from the PVV.
During the previous election campaign, PVV leader Geert Wilders repeatedly tried to avoid participating in an RTL debate. This is evident from a reconstruction by de Volkskrant. The newspaper spoke with seven former PVV members who left the party in January. The newspaper also examined text messages between Wilders and his then-confidant Gidi Markuszower.
During the last election campaign, PVV leader Geert Wilders did everything he could to avoid participating in the RTL debate. In the lead-up to the debates, Wilders texted his then-confidant Gidi Markuszower, becoming increasingly desperate to devise a ruse to get out of it. "Please, please, please," he texted Markuszower.
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