Dutch Farmers’ Party Emerges as the Biggest Force in Regional Elections, Upsets Government’s Plan to Enforce Radical Climate Laws
“The Boer-Burger Beweging (BBB), or Farmer-Citizen Movement, is projected to win 16 or 17 seats in the 75-seat upper house of the Dutch national parliament.”
As initial polling results show, Dutch farmers delivered a stunning blow to the country’s pro-EU establishment by emerging as the biggest political force in Wednesday’s regional elections.
The Boer-Burger Beweging (BBB), or Farmer-Citizen Movement, is set to become the largest party in the country’s senate, winning more seats than Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling conservative VVD party.
According to exit polls, the farmers’ party will get more than 15 seats in a 75-seat senate, a body that has the power to block legislation passed by the lower house of parliament. “The BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement), also known as the BBB, won almost 20 per cent of the vote, giving it 15 seats in the Senate, the upper house of parliament,” The Times of London reported.
Polls suggest that the leftwing ecological Groen-Links is expected to become the second largest party in the Senate, ahead of the country’s ruling VVD.
The German state TV Deutsche Welle reported:
A populist party founded only four years ago is set to emerge as the biggest party in Dutch provinicial elections for the upper house of parliament on Thursday, after riding a wave of protests by angry farmers.
The Boer-Burger Beweging (BBB), or Farmer-Citizen Movement, is projected to win 16 or 17 seats in the 75-seat upper house of the Dutch national parliament.
The party gained popularity as Dutch farmers’ protests ramped up in recent years, also gaining some global support, including from former US President Donald Trump and other right-wing or populist figures.
The four parties in the center-right ruling coalition were dealt significant losses. Combined, they are projected to have under a third of the Senate seats.
“This is not the victory we had hoped for,” Rutte, who has served as prime minister since 2010, said after the initial forecasts.
The co-ruling Christian Democratic party is seen as one of the biggest losers in this election, losing almost half of its seats. The party has traditionally represented many farmers and conservative rural voters. The Labor party (PvdA) and the Greens (GroenLinks) are likely to win 15 seats combined, according to the preliminary results.
The results force Rutte’s coalition to choose to either work with a left-leaning leaning bloc with environmental ambitions, or with the BBB. The latter is aiming to soften policies regarding cutting nitrate pollution.
Besides the party’s opposition to sweeping climate regulations, the BBB espouses Christian conservative values and wants to end mass migration from Muslim-majority North Africa and the Middle East. “The BBB opposes government plans to cut harmful emissions by reducing livestock numbers and buying out farms. However, its remit has broadened to embrace traditional, conservative Dutch social and moral values. These include opposing immigration and calling for a ban on Muslim women wearing the burka,” the Times of London noted.
The success of the farmers’ party threatens to derail the Dutch government’s plan to enforce EU-backed climate emission laws. “The meteoric rise of BBB is a major blow for Rutte’s governing coalition, casting doubt over its aim to drastically cut nitrogen pollution on farms, the single issue upon which BBB was founded in 2019,” the Belgian news website Euractiv reported Thursday.
The stunning electoral success of the BBB shows how a grassroots political party, created just four years ago, can win against a powerful pro-EU political and media establishment. The party galvanized popular support against the government’s plan to force farmers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or put them out of business.
The farmers’ fight is far from over in the Netherlands. Prime Minister Rutte’s ruling alliance could try to ram through climate legislation by aligning itself with other pro-EU globalist parties, Dutch news reports suggest.
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At least they learned they were being led by idiots.
Common sense at last.
The Dutch people like most of the rest of us have learned that their first enemy is their own government.
The worst part is the authority they have granted to the EU. All of this is because the EU demands it, and Dutch politicians are apparently a bunch of EU cucks.
“Next exit: NEXIT.”
One can hope.
Ahh they were also given hundreds of millions to pocket, the bro of the prime minister(?) alone was given $600,000,000…
Let them eat, please.
“…winning more seats than Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling conservative VVD party.”
“This is not the victory we had hoped for,” Rutte, who has served as prime minister since 2010, said after the initial forecasts.”
Vichycons get the wall, meneer.
Now, to do the same to US RINOs.
MDGA
Make Dutch Great Again!!!
I wonder 💭 If people around these parts are disturbed by their tactics, ie shoveling sh!t upon parliament, where it belongs
Mean tractors and all…
As long as those sorts of stunts produce electoral victory then they are productive, when/if they instead lead to electoral defeat they become counter productive.
Winning the election is the primary goal. That’s accomplished by convincing Citizens to vote for your candidate. Retaining an previously effective but now less effective communication strategy past it’s useful life isn’t the best to convince a certain segment of voters
It tells the pearl clutching types who worry about style, in essence, eff you if you don’t like it. That’s not a sound strategy to regain those voters who grew weary of what you call ‘mean tweets’.
Personally I like that ‘arrogant’ style because it reminds me of old school regional territory pro wrestling promos. Not everyone appreciates this style of communication and you must be willing to alter the style to suit the audience. It isn’t as if his most staunch supporters are suddenly gonna abandon Trump if he lightens up a bit choosing to employ more humor and humility over sarcasm or a braggadocious communication strategy.
Canada’s convoyistas could take a page.
How so?
Waiting approximately five seconds for the Farmer’s Party to be slandered by Leftist media in the U.S. and Europe as alleged “white supremacists,” “racists,” “xenophobes,” “Islamophobes,” ” ‘climate change’ deniers;”etc.
What’s happened to Canada is terrifying
So quickly and minimal push back
They really are a communist nation now
The sweet kind northerners who played hockey, skied, skated and loved to hunt are now sheep
“The sweet kind northerners who played hockey, skied, skated and loved to hunt are now sheep”… actually a better canuck term is “hoser:”.
If they are all her size, those 15 seats will only accommodate 2 new members.
Not necessary
gonzotx,
Your response here to E Howard of ‘not necessary’ seems to demonstrate you have at least some issue with the rather straight forward communication style/messaging choice he made.
This is exactly how some voters interpret some of the straight forward communication style of Trump. They may agree with the message but over time they become increasingly uncomfortable and intolerant of the style in which the message is communicated.
I urge you to use this instance as something to at least consider in how you approach the topic of the importance of ho different people interpret and react and how that might impact whether they withhold support based upon the style of communication.
Apples and Oranges
Our f-king country is going to hell in a hand basket, I don’t give a sh!t if President Trump, justly, calls them every freaking name in the book.
They are killing America, killing my grandchildren’s ability to live in a FREE and SANE Country that for centuries , yes centuries, my ancestors fought and died for that privilege.
Calling an overweight woman, who has nothing to do with anything, is just crass and clueless…
Just as you allowed yourself to become agitated at and focus upon what you term as a ‘crass and clueless’ communication style others react to some of Trump’s messaging the same way.
It is the same phenomenon of losing sight of or discounting the message due to the delivery style of the messenger that the more pearl clutching types engage in.
Personally I like the sarcastic, quick witted, pithy communication style. Trump’s directness is refreshing. There is though a point at which it becomes counter productive in attracting or retaining some voters. Some folks don’t appreciate it anymore or are turned off by it, just as you were here.
There are reasons not to buy your produce from malnourished farmers.
The Dutch will just look at the GOP playbook used against the Tea Party.
You have to understand that the Farmers are very much a minority even though they are the largest chunk of Senators. The rest of the Netherlands government is farther to the Left of them, hates them, and like our Democrats hate their own country. They will unify to squash the farmers and convince a whole lot of people that there is no way of voting their way out of it. Once again, like in our country.
Things in the Netherlands are far from over. To be honest, Dutch farmers need to be selling as exclusively overseas as they can, save the money, and be ready to leave as soon as they can. Let those who remain starve.
Subotai Bahadur
Netherlands going the way of Rhodesia?
Rhodesia and South Africa.
“…Dutch farmers delivered a stunning blow to the country’s pro-EU establishment by emerging as the biggest political force in Wednesday’s regional elections.”
Translation: The pro-EU, WEF totalitarians didn’t plan far enough in advance to successfully steal the election, and prevent this ‘upset.’
True dat!
New machines on the way, we must a recount!
It won’t matter. Remember what happened to Geert Wilder’s party? They won a huge number of seats in Parliament. Left-wing parties that were historically at each other’s throats formed a coalition government and locked them out of everything. They accomplished absolutely nothing, voters abandoned them for that, and they essentially had to disband.
Governments are crossing red lines in more and more countries. In the Netherlands, it’s the farmers who risked it all and for now, are succeeding. In France, as trivial as bumping up the retirement age from 62 to 64 may seem, the French are all ready invoking their founding revolution to depose their current “king”.
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/vive-la-france-the-french-remind
People are simply fed up with emerging dictatorships and some are now desperately rising in trying to stop it before it is too late. Too few. And we are sleep walking right into what will certainly be a brutal tyranny. At this point, any issue that rallies people to act is worth it.
Here in the US, the Deep State is closing in on us from all angles and haven’t given up on vaxxing us to death. Janet Yellen’s testimony in Congress this week laid bare where we are going. It is terrifying and it is happening right now.
Banks are collapsing globally while our Treasury and Fed are orchestrating a backdoor consolidation of the entire banking system into the money center banks. Yellen revealed how it is being done: selective bailouts where a cabal determines the winners and losers with “special” rules for “special” banks. Chinese depositors and billionaires get bailed out. The rest of us? Eat shit. All deposits and lending centralized into a handful of national banks being run by the government. What more could possibly go wrong? Plenty.
And now, Morgan Stanley is rolling out AI while digital currency is ready for deployment. The end of individual freedom. And it is staring us square in the face. So what will be the trigger that wakens the sleeping giant?
The NY AG is allegedly going to arrest Trump and admittedly without evidence?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-03-17/trump-be-arrested-next-week
This may not be factual but it is more than plausible. And these rumors have had a habit of being true lately. Such a desperate move by a desperate Deep State would be the last fig leaf to drop exposing that we are now living under a de facto dictatorship. There is one last hope: the House of Representatives.
I believe what we saw in Congress this week will finally motivate McCarthy to act boldly. Call a special emergency session of the House NOW. Strike when the iron is hot. Were McCarthy to get things rolling in the House around the Freedom Party, that would be a solid organized foundation going up against an old and tired regime. Moving forward, being a Dem or Rep loses all meaning. It’s time for all patriots to unite against the tyranny.
With the House taking the first step, we have one great campaigner Donald Trump already on a roll and ready to take this up. Were DeSantis to get on board, that would just about guaranty that the majority of Americans would be behind them (us). A formidable movement that would capture the hearts and minds of the voters desperate for leadership.
We can still win this we are running out of time. Until we drop our petty differences to unite around the fight for freedom, nothing good will happen. All the pieces are in place. Are we ready? Is anyone listening?
Commochief
I was turned off
By a person degrading a woman for no reason
Trumps
Attacks have a reason
A huge difference
Again, apples amd oranges
gonzotx,
You are more than welcome to continue refusing any sort of introspection, it’s a free country, for the moment at least. However, when you reject the possibility that others react to some of Trump’s antics and aggressive communication style negatively b/c they view those antics as unnecessary you are, IMO, deluding yourself.
I wonder what happens when people who like to eat start voting their own interest?
So 15 out of 75 seats gives them the largest number in the assembly. That’s only 20%. How few seats does Rutte’s “ruling” party have?
But Rutte will probably hold the same coalition together and still rule after this election. Piet Hein’s poem “Majority Rule” is as applicable as when I first read it over 50 years ago. Here is part of it:
He was: THE GREATER NUMBER of the pair
which formed the most part of the three that were
elected by the most of those whose boast
it was to represent the most of most
of most of most of the entire state –
or of the most of it at any rate.
He never gave himself a moment’s slumber
but sought the welfare of the greatest number.
And all the people, everywhere they went,
knew to their cost exactly what it meant
to be dictated to by the majority.
But that meant nothing, – they were the minority.
Or read the whole thing at:
http://archive.fairvote.org/library/poetry/majorityrule.htm