.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 even 23.6% of the ballot. His victory was a huge shock. Yet the named beneficiary of this particular abrupt rely on the challenging right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually met 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that party in 2004 over what he considered its softness in the direction of Islam, and also founded the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a sound base of elector help, yet has invested his parliamentary career usually on the sidelines, shut out of influence by various other gatherings’ refusal to collaborate with him.
Currently there is a good chance that this will modify.