The far-right and anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders is heading for a massive parliamentary election victory. It's one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II and one that is bound to send shockwaves through Europe.
Geert Wilders' party is the largest party, but that doesn't mean the majority voted for him. I would say generally 25 out of 150 seats go to parties like Wilders' party.
This time a lot of people voted Wilders as a protest vote (37 seats in total), but I expect a lot of the votes to return to the center-right party during the next elections.
People are fed up with a lot of mismanagement in our government, but they punish center-right coalitions by voting even further on the right while blaming the left (even though most of the left hasn't ever been part of the government coalition).
I bet that if you take away the housing and cost of living crises, people wouldn't be taking about immigration so much. It would help tremendously if the government wouldn't mismanage the asylum procedures as much as it does.
Geert Wilders' party is the largest party, but that doesn't mean the majority voted for him. I would say generally 25 out of 150 seats go to parties like Wilders' party.
This time a lot of people voted Wilders as a protest vote (37 seats in total), but I expect a lot of the votes to return to the center-right party during the next elections.
People are fed up with a lot of mismanagement in our government, but they punish center-right coalitions by voting even further on the right while blaming the left (even though most of the left hasn't ever been part of the government coalition).
I bet that if you take away the housing and cost of living crises, people wouldn't be taking about immigration so much. It would help tremendously if the government wouldn't mismanage the asylum procedures as much as it does.