.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Freedom (PVV) completed to begin with in the Dutch basic political election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or 23.6% of the ballot. His victory was actually a massive unpleasant surprise. But the named beneficiary of the abrupt rely on the hard right is actually no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that party in 2004 over what he considered its gentleness towards Islam, and established the PVV in 2006. He has always possessed a sound bottom of citizen support, however has spent his legislative profession mainly on the side projects, shut out of impact by various other parties’ rejection to work with him.
Currently there is a likelihood that this is going to change.