.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Independence (PVV) ended up to begin with in the Dutch basic election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in assemblage, or 23.6% of the vote. His success was actually a huge surprise. Yet the named beneficiary of this particular quick look to the challenging right is no startup.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that party in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities towards Islam, and also established the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a sound bottom of citizen help, but has spent his legislative profession mainly on the sidelines, shut out of influence through other parties’ rejection to deal with him.
Right now there is a great chance that this is going to alter.