Dutch King Willem-Alexander swore in the new ministers and state secretaries at the royal Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague on Tuesday.
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00:00Former Dutch intelligence chief Dick Schoof has been sworn in as Prime Minister at the
00:09head of a right-wing coalition government promising to implement the Netherlands' strictest
00:14ever asylum and immigration policy.
00:17The independent candidate is succeeding departing Prime Minister Mark Root, who is set to become
00:23the next Secretary General of NATO after 14 years in office at The Hague.
00:34It comes more than seven months after the veteran anti-Islam populist leader Hert Wilders'
00:40electoral victory in November.
00:43But after a series of negotiations, he was forced to give up on his own ambitions to
00:48be Prime Minister to keep the coalition talks on track.
00:53Some partners considered his anti-Islam and Euro-sceptic statements too extreme to lead
00:58the nation.
01:01So instead of having their own leaders stand for Prime Minister, the four coalition partners
01:06– the Freedom Party, the Farmers' Party, the liberal-conservative BVD and the new anti-corruption
01:13party NSC – agreed to compromise on Schoof.