.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Freedom (PVV) ended up initially in the Dutch general election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or even 23.6% of the ballot. His success was a significant surprise. Yet the named beneficiary of the quick rely on the tough right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having entered in 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that party in 2004 over what he considered its own soft qualities in the direction of Islam, as well as founded the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a strong base of citizen help, but has devoted his parliamentary profession primarily on the sidelines, locked out of influence through other celebrations’ refusal to team up with him.
Right now there is a likelihood that this will definitely alter.