.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Group for Liberty (PVV) ended up to begin with in the Dutch standard election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His success was actually a significant unpleasant surprise. However the recipient of this sudden rely on the challenging right is actually no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having met 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its own gentleness towards Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He has regularly had a strong bottom of elector support, but has devoted his parliamentary occupation mainly on the side projects, locked out of impact by various other parties’ refusal to team up with him.
Right now there is actually a great chance that this is going to change.