.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Participant for Flexibility (PVV) ended up to begin with in the Dutch overall vote-casting, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or even 23.6% of the vote. His triumph was a substantial surprise. But the beneficiary of the abrupt turn to the tough 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 participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that party in 2004 over what he considered its softness towards Islam, and also established the PVV in 2006. He has regularly had a sound foundation of citizen assistance, but has invested his parliamentary occupation mainly on the sidelines, shut out of influence through other events’ refusal to team up with him.
Now there is a likelihood that this is going to modify.