Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders toppled the ruling coalition on Tuesday, gambling that a snap election focused on immigration will bring victory at the polls and secure his decades-old ambition of holding the highest political office.

Geert Wilders topples Dutch coalition to push immigration agenda in elections - Dick Schoof will remain prime minister of Netherlands in caretaker administration

Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders pulled his anti-immigrant Party for Freedom out of the country’s ruling coalition over a dispute about severely tightening migration and asylum policies, raising the possibility of a government collapse and new elections in the Netherlands.