Rotterdam Mayor Challenges Geert Wilders to have “Fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands
PERSISMA, Rabat – More than a year after right-wing party leader Geert Wilders wished there were fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands, the Moroccan-born Mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb asked Wilders to come up with a realistic plan and openly expresswhat he would do to reduce the size of the Moroccan population in the Netherlands.
According to RTL Nieuws, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said last Sunday during a TV broadcast, “Wilders has said that he will arrange this. Society has the right to know how he will do that. I want to know from him: What is your plan? When are you going to arrange it? Society has the right to know the plan”.
During the interview which was watched by 800,000viewers, Ahmed Aboutaleb spoke about his parents’ fears that they will be ordered to leave the Netherlands, and how much this hurts him. The Rotterdam Mayor said that Wilders’ anti-Moroccan stand caused his father “an incredible amount of pain”.
“There have to be fewer people like him, not because he has done something wrong, but because he belongs to an ethnic group. My parents are scared! So I want to know from Wilders: when are you going to send them back?,”Aboutaleb added.
During his election campaign in March 2014, Wilders had his supporters chanting that they wanted “fewer Moroccans”.
Wilders is currently under investigation for leading his supporters in this anti-Moroccan chant of ‘fewer fewer fewer’ during his European election campaign.
