.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Person for Independence (PVV) completed first in the Dutch basic political election, winning 37 of the 150 chairs in assemblage, or 23.6% of the vote. His success was a significant shock. Yet the beneficiary of this particular quick count on the difficult right is no startup.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its own soft qualities towards Islam, and also established the PVV in 2006. He has always had a strong bottom of elector help, however has spent his legislative career primarily on the sidelines, shut out of impact through various other parties’ refusal to work with him.
Right now there is a likelihood that this will change.