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2010-06-10 Europe

20-seat loss forces early exit for Dutch PM as party leader

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Posted by tipper 2010-06-10 02:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 So Geert Wilders party won more seats (23 to 21) than the current governing party, yet they still have to label it as 'far-right'.

Posted by phil_b 2010-06-10 04:25|| 2010-06-10 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 They have to; the narrators are concerned about the number of fringe voters who agree with Wilder's Freedom Party on a number of issues but in the end voted for somebody else. In the shadow, unmentioned, is that sharia law would be even futher right of the Freedom Party according to the same appraisal and dialogue of this scribbler, if one were to give this person the benifit of impartiality.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-10 12:22|| 2010-06-10 12:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember, Mr. Wilders had no economic policy. So those Dutch who were concerned about the current euro problems would have voted Liberal. Several months ago the vote projections had Wilder's party taking about 37 seats, as I recall, and the Liberals at 10-20 or so... although I may have the numbers wrong. But at any rate, Wilders was speaking aloud about his lifetime ambition to be prime minister.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-10 13:24|| 2010-06-10 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "Mr. Wilders had no economic policy. . . . Wilders was speaking aloud about his lifetime ambition to be prime minister."

Then he'd better get an economic policy, tw. Toot sweet.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-10 13:31|| 2010-06-10 13:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Then he'd better get an economic policy, tw. Toot sweet.

Agreed, Barbara. The issue is that, except for the question of the Sharia invasion, Mr. Wilder is pretty much party line socialist. And because his was always a fringe party, that didn't matter. This will be a learning experience for him and his comrades.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-10 19:09|| 2010-06-10 19:09|| Front Page Top

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