.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Individual for Flexibility (PVV) completed first in the Dutch general election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His victory was a large surprise. However the beneficiary of the sudden turn to the tough right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually 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 gathering in 2004 over what he considered its softness in the direction of Islam, and started the PVV in 2006. He possesses consistently had a strong foundation of elector help, however has actually spent his legislative profession mostly on the sidelines, shut out of influence by other gatherings’ rejection to team up with him.
Right now there is a likelihood that this is going to alter.