.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Flexibility (PVV) finished first in the Dutch basic election, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the ballot. His triumph was a significant shock. Yet the named beneficiary of this abrupt turn to the hard 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 stopped that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its own gentleness in the direction of Islam, as well as started the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a sound foundation of elector help, however has devoted his legislative occupation usually on the side projects, shut out of influence through various other gatherings’ refusal to partner with him.
Right now there is actually a likelihood that this is going to change.