.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Independence (PVV) finished to begin with in the Dutch overall vote-casting, winning 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or 23.6% of the ballot. His success was a significant unpleasant surprise. Yet the beneficiary of this sudden turn to the tough right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He quit that party in 2004 over what he considered its softness towards Islam, and started the PVV in 2006. He possesses regularly possessed a solid bottom of elector assistance, however has invested his parliamentary job usually on the sidelines, locked out of influence by other gatherings’ refusal to team up with him.
Currently there is a great chance that this will alter.