The anti-Islam party PVV is prepared to be flexible about its proposed ban on headscarves in public buildings in order to join local government coalitions in Almere and The Hague, party leader Geert Wilders said on Friday.

The PVV was the biggest party in Almere and second biggest in The Hague after the local elections last month but is unlikely to end up in power. The party failed in its attempts to form a coalition in Almere and has been ruled out in The Hague.
Wilders said it was wrong to say the headscarf ban was an essential precondition for the party to take part. ‘It is not true. We want to govern, nationally and in Almere. I have only named one breaking point and that is the state pension [age],’ he told news agency ANP.