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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 Bosma’s invitation had been withdrawn, she said.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…