.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Group for Liberty (PVV) ended up first in the Dutch standard election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or even 23.6% of the vote. His victory was a huge unpleasant surprise. However the recipient of the quick turn to the difficult right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its own gentleness in the direction of Islam, and established the PVV in 2006. He possesses consistently possessed a strong bottom of citizen help, yet has actually invested his legislative career primarily on the side projects, locked out of influence by various other events’ refusal to collaborate with him.
Now there is actually a good chance that this is going to alter.