.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Flexibility (PVV) completed first in the Dutch standard political election, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His victory was a big unpleasant surprise. Yet the recipient of this sudden look to the tough right is no upstart.
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 quit that event in 2004 over what he considered its own softness in the direction of Islam, and started the PVV in 2006. He has always had a sound bottom of citizen help, yet has actually spent his parliamentary occupation primarily on the subsidiaries, shut out of effect by various other celebrations’ rejection to team up with him.
Right now there is a great chance that this is going to modify.