.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Group for Flexibility (PVV) finished to begin with in the Dutch overall political election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the ballot. His victory was actually a huge unpleasant surprise. Yet the named beneficiary of this unexpected look to the tough right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having entered in 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its softness towards Islam, and founded the PVV in 2006. He has regularly possessed a solid bottom of citizen assistance, yet has devoted his legislative job mostly on the sidelines, shut out of impact through other celebrations’ rejection to collaborate with him.
Right now there is actually a likelihood that this will change.