.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Individual for Liberty (PVV) finished initially in the Dutch general political election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or even 23.6% of the vote. His victory was actually a massive shock. However the beneficiary of this sudden turn to the hard right is no startup.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having actually met 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its own softness towards Islam, and also founded the PVV in 2006. He possesses always possessed a sound bottom of voter support, yet has actually invested his parliamentary profession usually on the subsidiaries, shut out of effect by various other gatherings’ rejection to deal with him.
Right now there is actually a great chance that this is going to alter.