.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Group for Freedom (PVV) completed first in the Dutch standard vote-casting, winning 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or 23.6% of the vote. His success was actually a substantial unpleasant surprise. However the beneficiary of the quick rely on the tough right is actually no startup.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that event in 2004 over what he considered its own soft qualities in the direction of Islam, and established the PVV in 2006. He has constantly possessed a sound bottom of voter support, however has spent his parliamentary profession primarily on the sidelines, shut out of effect by various other celebrations’ refusal to team up with him.
Now there is actually a good chance that this will definitely change.