.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Liberty (PVV) finished to begin with in the Dutch standard vote-casting, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or even 23.6% of the ballot. His victory was actually a large surprise. However the beneficiary of this particular sudden turn to the hard right is actually no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually entered in 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its own soft qualities towards Islam, and established the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a sound foundation of voter help, however has invested his parliamentary occupation primarily on the side projects, shut out of effect through other celebrations’ rejection to work with him.
Now there is actually a great chance that this is going to change.