.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Freedom (PVV) ended up first in the Dutch standard election, winning 37 of the 150 chairs in assemblage, or even 23.6% of the ballot. His triumph was actually a big shock. However the named beneficiary of this particular unexpected turn to the challenging right is actually no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having actually entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He quit that party in 2004 over what he considered its softness in the direction of Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He possesses constantly had a sound base of citizen support, however has spent his legislative job mainly on the subsidiaries, shut out of effect by other celebrations’ refusal to partner with him.
Right now there is a great chance that this will certainly transform.