The election was considered a three-party bargain. The Freedom Party was not one of them.
Geert Wilders The far-right and anti-Islam Freedom Party seems to be winning the Dutch parliamentary elections, contrary to previous expectations, according to a door-to-door poll by the research company Ipsos. According to it, the coalition of the Greens and the Labor Party would garner the second most votes.
According to the survey, the Freedom Party would get 35 seats in the parliament, the coalition of the Greens and the Labor Party 26 seats, the center-right VVD party 23 seats, and the New Social Contract party, which was founded only in August, 20 seats.
The elections were considered very unpredictable, but the victory of the Freedom Party would still be a surprise. It didn’t even fit in the top three in opinion polls before the elections.
Election victory too would not guarantee Wilders the position of prime minister, because the vast majority of other parties do not agree to the same government with him. Among the leaders of the major parties, only VVD Dilan Yesilgöz has considered government cooperation with Wilders possible, and he too has only talked about taking the Freedom Party into his own government.
In addition to the fact that the Freedom Party is openly anti-Muslim, it promised during the elections, among other things, to close the borders and hold a referendum on the Dutch exit from the EU.
Wilders himself received a sentence in 2016 for insulting Moroccans.
Holland’s the elections were premature, because the prime minister Mark Rutten the government submitted its resignation request in July after the coalition collapsed due to differences related to immigration.
Rutte, who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands for a record 13 years, has announced that he will retire from politics after the new government has been formed after the elections.
In addition to immigration and the housing shortage, the election topics included good governance, as the Netherlands has been rocked by several political scandals in recent years.
Even before the success of the Freedom Party, the government negotiations were expected to be difficult, because the Dutch political field is fragmented. There are 15 parties in the current House of Representatives, and in this election 26 parties competed for the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.
Rutte’s outgoing government was put together for almost a year.
The last ones according to the opinion polls published before the elections, there were very many voters who had left their decision on their candidate until the very last moment.
“These are a bit special elections for me, because anyone can win. I myself ended up with two candidates and tossed a coin which one I would choose,” he explained Vincent Spijker54, to the voting method.
Retired Lyon Kloezeman, 75, instead was very clear about what he wanted. Kloezeman said he voted for Wilders because he believes “he can stem the flood of asylum seekers”.
“We don’t have money, time or space for asylum seekers, and we should take care of our own,” he reasoned.
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