.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Party for Liberty (PVV) ended up initially in the Dutch general political election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or 23.6% of the ballot. His victory was a significant shock. However the beneficiary of this sudden count on the tough right is actually no upstart.
The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He quit that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its softness in the direction of Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He has always possessed a strong bottom of elector assistance, yet has invested his parliamentary occupation primarily on the sidelines, locked out of impact through other parties’ refusal to work with him.
Right now there is a likelihood that this will change.