Dutch Politician Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party Wins Most Seats in General Election
Wilders, who is on the verge of becoming prime minister, has softened his strong stances, vowing that his actions “would be within the law and constitution.”
The Netherlands voted, and Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party has won the most seats in the Dutch parliament.
Europe hates Wilders, who will likely become prime minister, because of his populist politics. I’m seeing the headlines calling him anti-Islam and far-right.
The Netherlands only had this election because the government couldn’t “rein in migration.”
Argentina on Monday, Netherlands today… @geertwilderspvv Freedom Party wins most seats in the Dutch general election. pic.twitter.com/gwbfc3AgKU
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 22, 2023
From Fox News:
In his first reaction, posted in a video on X, formerly Twitter, he spread his arms wide, put his face in his hands and said simply “35!” — the number of seats an exit poll forecast his Party for Freedom, or PVV, won in the 150-seat lower house of parliament.
The only time Wilders came close to governing was when he supported the first coalition formed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte in 2010. But Wilders did not formally join the minority administration and brought it down after just 18 months in office in a dispute over austerity measures. Since then, mainstream parties have shunned him.
“The PVV wants to, from a fantastic position with 35 seats that can totally no longer be ignored by any party, cooperate with other parties,” he told cheering supporters at his election celebration in a small bar in a suburb of The Hague.
Wilders once promised “no Islamic schools, Qurans or mosques.” He also wanted to leave the European Union and stop giving asylum to people.
Wilders has softened his strong stances, vowing that his actions “would be within the law and constitution.”
Prime Minister Mark Rutter in July after a four-party coalition could not agree on migration.
Turkey refugee Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, who took over for Rutte, could have become The Netherlands’ prime minister if the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy won the most votes.
The party ended up losing 11 seats.
In July, The Netherlands predicted it would see over 70,000 asylum applications this year, making it the highest since 2015.
“This will again put a strain on the country’s asylum facilities, where for months last year hundreds of refugees at a time were forced to sleep in the rough with little or no access to drinking water, sanitary facilities, or healthcare,” reported Reuters.
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It’s a GREAT event! Looking forward to what he does to curb the muslim crazies!!! I pray the rest of elected officials work with him and not against their countrymen.
It does appear that people all over the world are starting to understand the essence of Islam. Thad Jarvis must be crapping his pants as much as Biden 🙂
If they don’t kill him first
Nope, but still entertained by keyboard warrior blowhards like you pretending to gear up for the big crusade you’re pretending to be on the front line for.
And having lived in several Muslim majority countries as well as in an urban neighborhood with a large Muslim immigrant population, I just continue to laugh and roll my eyes at comment section loudmouths like you. Stay vigilant, mighty Christian warrior!
Sure, troll.
Wow, did you craft that witty retort all by yourself or was your team of writers up all night working furiously on such a devastating zinger? Hope I can recover!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgsrnmzxEUY&list=PLpH92K-Okv-yMcHQ6bOQWP_cqVu70PyRN&index=6&t=72s&pp=gAQBiAQB
The long comment was for General Chicken hawk Smith. Actually gonzo, I survived multiple deployments in Muslim countries and am surviving quite nicely with many Muslim friends and neighbors, several of whom risked their lives to support our mission before that senile idiot Biden stabbed them in the back.
I hate to interrupt your daily adoration of your Lord and Savior Donald Trump, but figured it was worth mentioning.
I remember when he went to Garland, Texas for the draw muhammed contest — and a couple of psychos – I think the FBI knew about them — showed up to shoot the place up. They were both killed, I think by Garland Texas police.
“I think the FBI knew about them”
Puhleeze. The FBI did everything but give them a ride there.
No, by a security officer
They were killed by an off-duty cop working the event, but they were also fired upon by several SWAT members who were also part of the security for the event.
Per an NBC News report: About 40 Garland police officers, along with members of federal and state law enforcement agencies, were guarding the May 3 event at a conference center in suburban Dallas when the attackers drove up and opened fire. Five officers responded, killing the two gunmen. One unarmed security guard was injured; no one attending the event was hurt.
Good. Spain is still a possibility to dump their socialist government as another election is quite possible in the near term.
Finland, Sweden, Greece and Italy have all become more conservative with recent elections. Not conservative by US standards but certainly moving away from leftist totalitarian bureaucrats and towards individual freedom and governing for their citizens and not the EU globalist elites.
There is still a chance that Poland can put together a coalition to deny the PM position to the globalists.
Not sure when the next French and German elections are. If they were to dump their globalist governments, then a real change for the positive is possible for all of Europe and Western civilization.
Finland’s Whites defeated the Red Finns and Lenin’s Bolshevik sailors, marines and Red Army irregulars in a very sharp and bloody four month civil war.
The weird thing about the White victory and its aftermath was how Finland’s Diet remained composed of anti-bolshevik doctrinaire Marxist social democrats and quasi-rightist Swede-Finn traditionalists and farmers. They somehow made it all work.
Which kind of explains how modern Finland functions.
And Hungary. Europe is only mostly dead.
The problem is that the Freedom Party won about 35 seats in a 150 seat House — they need to form a coalition to govern, and the other parties steadfastly refuse to work with them. I suspect the Freedom Party will be locked out again.
JR, Danny and fsu are hardest hit. Hope that Geert has toned down his mean tweets.
Everyday folks are figuring out that they are going to have to be willing to save themselves instead of hoping some mainstream political figure will do it for them. That means being willing to break with orthodoxy, do some research, some study and think for themselves. That’s a very distinct process than lazily taking in the latest hotness online b/c it may fit an overly simplistic black/white emotional response. Not everyone is equipped to break out of of lower order levels of thinking. Simple is very seductive b/c it is easy/comfortable. Higher order thinking requires us to step back and evaluate our own actions, beliefs and flaws from a detached perspective. That isn’t something most people’s ego can allow them to do in an honest manner, especially in the era of social media, instant gratification and the cultural narcissism it reinforces.
The polarization is obvious in every aspect of daily life, and manifests itself as “me first”.
Off topic, but it looks like there will be a Trump-Tucker ticket.
You are so insufferably stupid it’s amazing you can remember to breathe without an instruction manual.
“Argentina on Monday, Netherlands today…”
USA next year. 🤞
From your lips to God’s ear.
Thirty-Five seats… out of 150. This is why I’m not a fan of parliamentary systems. Simply too many parties. I have a feeling that no matter how hard he tries to govern he’s simply going to be stabbed in the back by his coalition partners when it suits them.
Nothing will get better for the country as a result.
Sooner or later with a lack of places to go, Muslims are either going to have to evolve in their own countries to advance towards modern civilization or blow up in a mushroom-shaped sand cloud.
I doubt it, London has fallen
Tinfoil hat on…
That has happened before, the end result being fantastic tales of Atlantis and N Africa becoming a desert.
Tinfoil hat off…
I don’t know how you can say that. PVV got 37 seats, last I saw, but he needs at least 76 and I don’t see how he’s going to get them. That Turkish woman said before the election that she’d be willing to work with him, but not with him as prime minister. “I don’t see that happening”, or something similar. The farmers party will likely support him, but who else? The best outcome I can see is a coalition led by someone else, but with PVV having a seat at the table. PM Geert will have to wait for next time, hopefully.
I just read that with the Farmers Party and another center right party he could have a coalition of 86 seats. Who knows. Seems like potential for lots of back room negotiations over cabinet positions.
It may be confusing to some with all the acronyms similar but the VVD has vowed to work with the PVV. Together they have 71 seat which is the magic number needed to become PM. This is why Wilders is about to become PM.
As for that Turkish chick, she is just angry the uncontrolled invasion of Muslims into The Netherlands is about to come to a screeching halt
I should clarify. 71 seats is the overwhelming majority of the 76 needed and far more than needed to guarantee a majority coalition. The remaining 5 seats will come from one of the smaller parties like the FvD which won 8 seats, all that Wilders needs.
By “magic number” I meant the number of seats between the PVV and VVD is so large it’s an almost a certainty that Wilders will be elected PM.
VVD is the “Turkish chick”, and she is the one who said about the prospect of VVD joining a government led by Wilders “I don’t see that happening”, or words to that effect. Now it’s possible she’ll change her mind, or her party room will change it for her, but as of now it looks like VVD will not join a PVV-led government; the most they will do is allow PVV to join a government they lead.
I know who she is. The VVD has vowed to work with Wilder. She is angry because she just watched her chances of being PM evaporate when it was widely predicted the VVD would prevail with the most seats.
She is the VVD, unless the party dumps her. This vow to work with him is what she said before the election. But her vow was limited to working with him from the driver’s seat, not from the passenger’s seat.
Or have you seen a more recent vow?
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilan_Ye%C5%9Filg%C3%B6z-Zegerius
I thought VVD was Rutte??
No, he resigned. Now it’s Dilan Whatshername.
PVV + VVD is only 61, not 71. And FvD only has 3, not 8. But BBB has 7, and they’d probably join, which brings them to 71 and they’d need five more. But the sticking point is that unless VVD has a change of heart they are willing to “work with” PVV, but not to let PVV lead.
Your correct. My math was off. Still, that leaves 15 seats. I can come up with that number easily by some of the parties that were in opposition to the prior ruling coalition. PVV will lead as they have the most seats and the other parties that support either PVV or VVD. Both FvD and CDA will join with the CDA moving farther right over the last decade. This leaves very few to pick up and I think the small parties will support Wilder as they will want to be on the ascendant party side.
That’s not a given. If VVD sticks its heels in and refuses to allow him to lead, he won’t be able to go around its back.
I’ve just talked with a diving friend of mine I met in Curicao who lives there. She tells me the press are not close to reporting how angry people are over the migration and farm stuff.
I suspect the Netherlands’ Farmageddon also played a role in this result…
European national governments follow the dictates of the EU more closely than those of their voters. Immigration is the biggest example. This misplaced loyalty has elevated Geert Wilder in the Netherlands, just as it has resurrected the political fortunes of Donald Trump in the US. Corruption undoubtedly plays a role in convincing politicians to betray the interests of voters.
On a similar note, Reuters reported (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-his-backers-paid-95000-iowa-religious-leaders-group-documents-show-2023-08-12/) that the DeSantis campaign paid $95k to an evangelical organization in Iowa run by Bob Vander Plaats in advance of his endorsement of Ron DeSantis.
This chain of events sounds like pay to play, although Vander Plaats denies that his endorsement was bought and paid for. One wonders what promises were made to Iowa governor Kim Reynolds in exchange for her decision to break tradition and endorse DeSantis. Even if not entirely corrupt, these events certainly provide a window into the murky business of political endorsements.
They have to. The EU dictates are the law, and override whatever any one nation’s voters want. That’s why Brexit was so important.
And I have trouble imagining a Nexit. The Netherlands hasn’t had its own economy since it joined Benelux, right after WW2.
In theory that is true. However, Greece just passed a new set of immigration laws aimed at reducing migration. And all the EU can do is “fine” individual member states for not taking their “fair” share of refugees.
Read this am that the EU reps of Nations more committed to a sort of Federal style, more powerful central govt version of the EU have pushed trough a measure to remove the ‘national veto’ option.
In practice this means that the Nations skeptical of woke/weirdo policies have far less ability to successfully oppose these policies. Basically Nations like Hungry and Poland who oppose the EU open borders migrant policy and the EU provisions re Nations accepting their ‘fair share’ of migrants are now more/less powerless to stop these policies.
Despite the ability of the EU to jam this through it may backfire in the longer term. This is a big step in eroding National sovereignty. The Nations who view the EU as more of an economic union v a potential EU super State are gonna have to choose between the economic benefits of EU membership and their own National sovereignty.
Reuters is desperately trying to make something out of nothing. There’s no story.
I was with you, until you went into the $95k. It costs money to put on these events, and it’s unsurprising candidates would contribute to them.
There is no way that a single event in Iowa costs $95k. I have experience with a three-day conference in Maryland with 300 attendees per day, two meals per day, coffee, and snacks, plus security that did not cost that much.
Whatever the money went toward, it was not just to defray costs for an endorsement.
It’s not just to defray the event’s costs. It’s common for such events to be fundraisers for the organization that puts them on. If the people attending are the ones you want to be exposed to, then it makes sense to buy an ad in the event journal, and to have a few people there to meet them. That does not imply that you’re buying an endorsement. I’m sure other campaigns also bought tickets and ads, paying the same price, and didn’t get an endorsement out of it. This is just normal. Reuters is ginning up a story where there is none.
Argentina and the Netherlands bode well for Gavin Newsom.
This is now a thing: twitter link
https://tinyurl.com/bdab78w9
Videos of Dutch muslim clerics and practitioners with fake packed suitcases pretending a return to Krapholestan …. while posing in front of large TV screens showing Geert Wilders.
If only they were at the boarding gate.
They can join all the people who were going to Canada in 2017 (and in 2001 and 2009), only they never got around to actually going.
Oops, that should have been 2001 and 2005.
I do wonder when our overlord-betters will stop being surprised by our ingratitude for their “leadership.”