Dutch campaigners have gathered more than 56,000 signatures on a petition calling for The Netherlands to hold a referendum on whether to leave the EU, in wake of Brexit.
Even though their petition has little to no chance of success, organisers Patrick Crijns and Peter van Wijmeren told the Dutch daily NRC they wanted to “show that there is an interest in a Nexit.”
A motion put forward by far-right, anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders to the Dutch Parliament calling for the Government “to make every effort to hold a referendum on the Dutch membership of the EU as soon as possible, a Nexit” was rejected by 124 votes against to 14 for. “Everything has just got worse, since the arrival of the euro and the European Union which has seen our national sovereignty abandoned and our borders disappear,” the petition says.