The choice comes as a surprise: if Geert Wilders likes to grumble about anything, it’s unelected bureaucrats. Dick Schoof, the future head of government and successor to Mark Rutte, is exactly that, a top civil servant who is also described as a doer with a thirst for recognition. Over the past 20 years, Schoof has played a key role in shaping the Netherlands’ security and asylum policy. He is therefore actually a representative of this „deep state“, which the far-right election winner otherwise likes to denounce.