.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Group for Liberty (PVV) finished initially in the Dutch overall political election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His victory was a huge surprise. Yet the beneficiary of this particular quick count on the difficult right is actually no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its own soft qualities towards Islam, as well as started the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a sound bottom of voter support, but has actually spent his legislative occupation typically on the side projects, shut out of impact by various other celebrations’ rejection to team up with him.
Now there is a good chance that this will definitely transform.