.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Person for Independence (PVV) ended up first in the Dutch overall vote-casting, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the ballot. His success was a significant unpleasant surprise. Yet the beneficiary of the unexpected turn to the hard right is no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having actually met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that party in 2004 over what he considered its own softness towards Islam, as well as started the PVV in 2006. He possesses regularly had a strong base of elector assistance, yet has spent his legislative job usually on the sidelines, shut out of effect through other gatherings’ rejection to deal with him.
Currently there is a likelihood that this is going to transform.