(29 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Hague – 29 May 2024
1. Pan shot of Dutch prime minister’s office
2. Various exterior shots of office
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Corder, Associated Press:
"Six months after a general election, the Dutch finally has a name to become the new prime minister. Geert Wilders and his far fight Party for Freedom won the November election, but he is in coalition talks with three other governments (Parties) and they don’t want him to be premier."
4. Pan shot exterior of Dutch prime minister’s office
5. Various of people
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Corder, Associated Press:
"So, now the four leaders have chosen Dick Schoof. He is a 67-year-old, who was the chief of the intelligence agency and the counter-terrorism office and he’s now the top civil servant at the justice ministry."
7. Close of Dutch flag
8. Pan shot from buildings to people in the street
9. Mid of people walking in the street
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Corder, Associated Press:
"Schoof says his experience in the civil service will stand him in good stead to lead the country. He’ll need all that experience to implement a program that includes Wilders’ pledge to slash immigration.”
11. Various of people
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Corder, Associated Press:
"The next step to forming a technocratic government is for the four leaders to select a team of ministers to make up a new candidate. They hope to have that done by the end of June. After that, the ministers’ team and the new cabinet will go to a Palace on the edge of The Hague, where the King will swear them in as the Netherlands’ first cabinet led by a far-right party.”
13. Mid of Geert Wilders, leader of far-right Party for Freedom poster
14. Various of people cycling
STORYLINE:
A former head of the Dutch intelligence agency and counterterrorism office emerged Tuesday as the surprise nominee to become the Netherlands’ next prime minister, after he was given the backing of leaders cobbling together a four-party coalition headed by Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom.
Dick Schoof, the 67-year-old former head of the General Intelligence and Security Service and currently the top civil servant at the Ministry of Security and Justice, met with the leaders of the four parties before they announced he was their choice for prime minister at a late afternoon news conference.
His name had not been circulating as a possible prime minister and he conceded that his nomination was a surprise.
Schoof will draw on years of experience as a public servant as he takes on the leadership of a deeply divided nation as head of a technocrat administration that has embraced parts of Wilders’ radical ideology.
AP video shot by Ahmed Seir Nassiri
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