.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Independence (PVV) completed initially in the Dutch general political election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His victory was a big surprise. But the named beneficiary of this particular unexpected rely on the difficult right is no startup.
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 gave up that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities towards Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He has regularly possessed a solid foundation of voter help, yet has devoted his legislative profession typically on the subsidiaries, locked out of effect by various other events’ refusal to collaborate with him.
Right now there is a good chance that this will change.