<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Former Dutch intelligence chief Dick Schoof will be presented today as the proposed prime minister of the Netherlands’ incoming right-wing government.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The four parties that will form the new government, led by Geert Wilders’ nationalist PVV, announced a press conference with Schoof for 1500 GMT today.</div><div><br></div><div>Election winner Wilders earlier this month reached an agreement on forming a new government with three other conservative parties, after ruling himself out for the top job in the cabinet.</div><div><br></div><div>Schoof, 67, is currently the senior official at the Dutch ministry of justice, after having led the country’s intelligence agency AIVD and anti-terrorism agency NCTV for years.</div><div><br></div><div>He would head a cabinet that the four parties have said would have looser ties to parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>That government will, however, have to stick to the agreement reached by the four parties, which aims for a clampdown on migration and exceptions on EU asylum and environmental rules.</div><div><br></div><div>Far-right leader Wilders last week said he expected the new government to be operational by end June. - Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd/fas</div>