.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Person for Flexibility (PVV) finished initially in the Dutch standard election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or 23.6% of the ballot. His victory was actually a large shock. However the named beneficiary of this particular abrupt turn to the tough right is actually no startup.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having entered in 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its own gentleness towards Islam, as well as founded the PVV in 2006. He has regularly had a strong base of elector support, but has actually invested his legislative job mostly on the sidelines, locked out of influence by various other events’ refusal to collaborate with him.
Currently there is actually a great chance that this will modify.