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Dutch Populist Geert Wilders on Pace for Another Major Victory, Urges Voters to Reject Terror and Crime of Open Borders

2024-06-06

[Breitbart] Veteran populist and anti-Islamification campaigner Geert Wilders is on pace for his second major political victory in a year.

Wilders cast this week’s European Parliament elections in his characteristically stark terms, saying a vote for the left will only bring more terrorism and crime while a safer Netherlands can be realised with a vote for his Party for Freedom.

On the back of winning a "mega victory" in last November’s general election, in which his Party for Freedom (PVV) pulled off "one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II" in securing 37 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives and becoming the largest political party in the legislature for the first time in the history of the party, Geert Wilders is looking to go from strength to strength.

According to Dutch public broadcaster NOS, Wilder’s party is projected to win the most nationally-allocated seats in the European Parliament after this week’s elections, with polls predicting that the PVV will pick up at least nine of the 31 seats assigned to the Netherlands in the EU legislative body. This would represent a dramatic turnaround from the previous vote in 2019 when Wilder’s party did not receive enough votes to send a single MEP to Strasbourg.

After spending decades relegated to the political sidelines in the Netherlands, with a second election victory, Wilders will firmly entrench his position as the most powerful force in Dutch politics as he continues to wrangle the formation of a new right-wing government in The Binnenhof.

The ascendancy of the 60-year-old populist campaigner — and former Breitbart contributor — comes as the public grows increasingly sceptical of the open borders agenda that has dominated in Brussels and The Hague.

Posted by:Besoeker

#5 My only concern is that it has always seemed to me that when eurineland swings "right" America swings left.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-06 13:48

#4 I like the Dutch, hope its not too late for sanity to return and their culture to survive.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-06-06 13:44

#3 Jewish Telegraph Agency report: Dutch Jews never voted en masse for the Party for Freedom, though Wilders’ strident support for Israel and anti-Islamist posture did make him a star among certain Jewish constituencies, in Holland and abroad. But the statement on Moroccans has been seen as a final straw in a gradual estrangement that began in 2011, when the Party for Freedom was key to the Dutch parliament’s adoption of a ban on ritual slaughter — a measure reversed in 2012 by the senate only after vigorous lobbying by Jewish groups.

Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-06-06 08:35

#2 You are confused, my dear. The technical term for Geert Wilders is philosemite.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-06-06 01:44

#1 Disgusting antisemite
Remember Pim Fortuyn, the other far right antisemite who was stabbed to death in the street in Holland way back when? Will the Dutch find their strength again?

Posted by: Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107 2024-06-06 01:03

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