Dutch petition for Nexit gains 56,000 voters

The shadow of Brexit seems to have already stretched on Europe: within a few days by the outcome of the British referendum, Dutch 56 thousand have signed an online petition calling for the release by the European Union of the Netherlands, delivered by the promoters to lower house of parliament.

The same parliament had rejected a motion presented Tuesday night by anti-Islamist MP and Euro-skeptic Geert Wilders in which he wondered conducting as quickly as possible a consultation on "Nexit". Wilders has personally committed to organize a consultation if elected Prime Minister in the upcoming planning policies in the month of March 2017.

The two petitioners, Patrick Crijns and Peter van Wijmeren, intended to "send a signal about the growing interest in a Nexit": "Since the arrival of the euro and the European Union, with which our national sovereignty and our borders are gone, everything has gone downhill "as pictured on the web site on which it was possible to sign the document.

At the moment it is not on the no consultation day, not only because it lacks the political will to do so, but also because the holding of a binding referendum would require a series of constitutional reforms which would take years for approval, in addition to a majority strong and stable policy.

A poll published on June 26 by the Dutch peil.nl polling company found that while 50 percent of Dutch voters currently favor a referendum, compared to 47 percent who do not, a narrow majority of people would vote to stay in the EU if a vote was ever held.