Wilders’ time is up, says rebel Gidi Markuszower, who last week walked out of the Party of Freedom’s group in the Dutch House of Representatives with six other party members. I couldn’t see that our ministers were PVV members,” Markuszower says. The “friendship” with Wilders has now evaporated, he says, while PVV members who remained in the party branded him a “Judas”. Last week, shortly after the coup, he still said he expected more PVV members to defect to Group Markuszower. Former MEP Sebastiaan Stöteler, the PVV’s second-in-command in The Hague, described what he called the betrayal of Wilders as “horrible”.