Far-right politician Martin Bosma, the speaker of the Dutch lower house, will not be welcome at a national commemoration marking the end of slavery, Linda Nooitmeer, the head of the organizing committee, announced in The Hague on Wednesday.
Bosma's invitation had been withdrawn, she said. Bosma, a member of the Party for Freedom (PVV) headed by Geert Wilders, had been disinvited, Nooitmeer said.
Bosma has drawn attention on account of remarks seen as racist but rejects making any apology for them.
As the highest representative of the House of Representatives, Bosma was to have laid a wreath at the commemoration on Monday in Amsterdam. He was elected speaker at the end of last year, following elections in which the PVV emerged the strongest party.
In response to criticism of Bosma's planned participation, the organizing committee asked him to withdraw his earlier remarks. Bosma had referred to the event as "anti-white racism" and as "propaganda and indoctrination."
The PVV is calling for the official apology by the Dutch state to be withdrawn.
Monday marks the end of a year of commemoration of the end of slavery in the Dutch colonies 150 years ago.