Some thirty parties will compete with each other for the favor of Dutch voters on March 15. Because there are only 150 seats in the Dutch Parliament, the largest party will not be able to get much more than 35 to 40 seats. The favorite right now to become the largest party in parliament is Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV).
A shocking new poll has been released in the Netherlands. According to Kantar Public, PVV has opened a large lead over the second largest party in the polls, the VVD, which is currently part of the governing coalition. This makes Wilders the absolute favorite to succeed current Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the political leader of the country.
According to the Kantar Public poll, the PVV would get 35 seats in the 150-seat Dutch Parliament if elections were held today. By Dutch standards, that’s an impressive result. This is especially true because of the significant gap between PVV and the VVD. The party led by current Prime Minister Mark Rutte wold have to settle for a mere 22 seats, 19 fewer seats than they currently occupy.
PVV stijgt fors naar 35 zetels!!
Laatste peiling @TNSNIPO #PVV #NederlandWeerVanOns pic.twitter.com/rKvt4nzSD7— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) February 1, 2017
Wilders is profiting from a general feeling of unease about the direction in which the country is heading and public outrage at the refugee crisis. The Dutch government has allowed the borders to remain open, thereby allowing tens of thousands of “refugees” to come to the Netherlands every single year. This while there already were significant problems caused by (mostly) Islamic immigrants who refuse to assimilate into Dutch culture and society.
Voters’ explanations make clear that the ruling VVD party has a very serious problem. Says one voter:
Enough. Enough with everything!
Another angry voter adds:
The VVD has become the party for the rich and they never deliver on their promises.
That voter refers to Rutte’s promise during the campaign of 2012 that he would give every working Dutchman a taxbreak of 1.000 euros. Once he put together a coalition with the social democrats of the PvdA, however, he actually raised taxes. Additionally, Rutte promises to halt mass immigration. As is clear, he has done no such thing.
A third voter explains his current support for the PVV by referring to Wilders’ eurosceptic attitude:
Wilders is the only one willing to address the major problems caused by Europa and mass immigration.
It goes on and on and on. One voter after another explains that the VVD has lost their support because the party doesn’t keep its promises, because it supports the EU’s power grabs, and because it refuses to do something about mass immigration. The only party they believe that has the willingness to address those issues is the PVV, Wilders’ party.
This is why Wilders’ Party for Freedom now has to be considered the main favorite to win the Dutch elections. That would mean that interesting times are ahead: he’s is advocating for a permanent ban on immigration from Islamic countries, wants to ban the Quran, and says he wants the Netherlands to leave the European Union (which is called a ‘Nexit’). In other words, a victory for the PVV could truly create a democratic revolution in what was once known as Europe’s most liberal and EU-friendly country. And the establishment parties will have nobody to blame for that but themselves. After all, they are the ones who have systematically ignored Dutch voters’ concerns and who continued with the megalomanic European project despite the objections of the Dutch people.
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