Green Party Leader: Prime Minister Failed in Not Defending Minister

Femke Halsema, the leader of the Green Left Party, has accused Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende of remaining silent when PVV Party Leader Geert Wilders called him an accomplice of the radical Muslim Mohammed B, who murdered Theo Van Gogh. Halsema said that Baldenende always talks about moral standards and thus should have spoken up.
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