.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Individual for Independence (PVV) completed to begin with in the Dutch basic election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or 23.6% of the vote. His triumph was a massive surprise. But the named beneficiary of this abrupt rely on the challenging 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 participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that party in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities in the direction of Islam, as well as founded the PVV in 2006. He has constantly had a solid bottom of elector support, yet has devoted his parliamentary job usually on the side projects, shut out of effect through other parties’ rejection to partner with him.
Now there is actually a likelihood that this will alter.