.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Person for Flexibility (PVV) ended up initially in the Dutch overall vote-casting, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or even 23.6% of the vote. His victory was actually a big surprise. But the recipient of the unexpected look to the tough right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having actually entered in 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its gentleness towards Islam, as well as founded the PVV in 2006. He possesses consistently possessed a sound base of citizen help, yet has actually spent his parliamentary career usually on the side projects, locked out of impact through various other parties’ refusal to deal with him.
Right now there is a great chance that this is going to alter.