Wilders wants to ban mosques and leave the EU. ‘Voters are fed up,’ he says.

The anti-Islam, euroskeptic radical Geert Wilders is projected to be the shock winner of the Dutch election.

In a dramatic result that will stun European politics, his Freedom Party (PVV) is set to win around 35 of the 150 seats in parliament — more than double the number it secured in the 2021 election, according to exit polls.

Frans Timmermans’ Labour-Green alliance is forecast to take second place, winning 25 seats — a big jump from its current 17. Dilan Yeşilgöz, outgoing premier Mark Rutte’s successor as head of the center-right VVD, suffered heavy losses and is on course to take 24 seats, 10 fewer than before, according to the updated exit poll by Ipsos for national broadcaster NOS.

A win for Wilders will put the Netherlands on track — potentially — for a dramatic shift in direction, after Rutte’s four consecutive centrist governments. The question now, though, is whether any other parties are willing to join Wilders to form a coalition. Despite emerging as the largest party, he will lack an overall majority in parliament.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago
    • the government doesn’t take climate change seriously
    • it is basically impossible for a large group of people (including me) to ever buy a home
    • any sort of nature here is dead and over half the country doesn’t seem to care
    • inequality has been growing for decades
    • the country is incredibly polarized
    • after over a decade of neo liberal VVD policy, the majority of people apparently yearn for even more right wing policy
    • Ajax are 12th in the eredivisie

    Or course I’m being a bit dramatic but considering how things were I do think the Netherlands is going to shit a little bit. Of course it’s a better place to live than many other places, but in my opinion it’s definitely getting worse.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      Are there any capitalist countries not like this at the moment? The problems seem the same everywhere, and the response always seems to be a rise in fascism.