{"id":13230,"date":"2023-11-23T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T17:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/geert-wilders-win-in-dutch-election-is-a-boon-for-europes-far-right\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T17:15:16","slug":"geert-wilders-win-in-dutch-election-is-a-boon-for-europes-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=13230","title":{"rendered":"Geert Wilders\u2019 win in Dutch election is a boon for Europe\u2019s far right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The success of far-right leader Geert Wilders in Dutch elections on Wednesday is the latest triumph for nationalist, anti-establishment politicians who rail against liberal elites around the world. <\/p>\n

His victory will pile pressure on the EU to find ways to reduce immigration and builds momentum for hard-right parties ahead of European parliament elections in June.<\/p>\n

Wilders\u2019 Freedom party is slated to win 37 seats, doubling its total, followed by a left-wing alliance of Labour and Greens led by the EU\u2019s former climate chief Frans Timmermans with 25, and the Liberal VVD party with 23. The forecast by press agency ANP is based on 99 per cent of the votes counted.<\/p>\n

Following recent opinion polls predicting Donald Trump could return as US president, the Dutch vote again showed a gulf in a developed economy between better-off city dwellers and rural voters worried about rising immigration and declining public services.<\/p>\n

The Freedom party did best outside the cities, but also won narrowly in working-class Rotterdam and The Hague, gaining votes from the VVD.<\/p>\n

Wilders, 60, who has been an MP since 1998 and lives under police protection for his anti-Muslim stance, said he would curtail an \u201casylum tsunami\u201d and ensure \u201cthe Dutch get their country back\u201d. <\/p>\n

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VVD leader Dilan Ye\u015filg\u00f6z-Zegerius said she did not think she would serve in a Wilders cabinet<\/span> \u00a9 Piroschka van de Wouw\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than half of Dutch voters named asylum and migration as a key issue, according to surveys conducted by Ipsos on behalf of NOS and RTL Nieuws. <\/p>\n

Annual net migration hit more than 220,000 last year in the densely populated country of 18mn. Rightwing politicians say new arrivals are exacerbating a housing shortage that has made homes unaffordable for young people and lower-income families.<\/p>\n

Fellow far-right leaders in France and Italy seized on Wilders\u2019 victory. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows that more and more countries in the EU contest its functioning and want to take back control of immigration, which is considered by many as excessive and anarchic,\u201d France\u2019s Marine Le Pen said on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cA new Europe is possible,\u201d Italian League leader Matteo Salvini wrote on social media platform X, along with a picture of himself with Wilders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wilders wants a referendum on leaving the EU, of which the Netherlands was a founder member, and has long pushed for a ban on the Koran and mosques. But he will have to compromise to govern.<\/p>\n

Polling for the EU elections next year predicts big increases for hard-right parties, and losses for the Greens, Socialists and the centre right. French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said Wilders\u2019 victory was the result of \u201cmany worries and fears\u201d that had built up in Europe in recent years and that were feeding the rise of far-right parties across the continent. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very sad we have an anti-immigrant party on top,\u201d said Elijah Vermeulen, a 20-year-old student and first time general election voter. \u201cThey blame all the problems in the country on immigrants \u2014 healthcare, housing, inflation. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut the Labour party is by far the biggest among 18 to 34-year-olds. My hope is our generation will take over in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fewer people aged 18 to 35 went to the polls this time than in the previous parliamentary elections, 73 per cent compared to 80 per cent in 2021 \u2014 and the Freedom party received the most votes in that age group, according the NOS survey.<\/p>\n

Wilders will have the first chance to find coalition partners to form a government that can muster a majority in the 150-seat lower house of parliament. It will be an uphill struggle but neither of the other big rightwing parties \u2014 the VVD and centre-right New Social Contract (NSC), which is expected to garner 20 seats \u2014 has ruled out working with him. <\/p>\n

Dilan Ye\u015filg\u00f6z-Zegerius, leader of the VVD, said she did not think she would serve in a Wilders cabinet. \u201cI said that I don\u2019t see that happening because Wilders cannot form a majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the woman who arrived as a child refugee from Turkey also wants to cut immigration. She said the country could not cope with the volume of arrivals. The election result, she said, was \u201cabout the concerns of people who haven\u2019t been heard. If you keep ignoring them in politics, you\u2019re going to get this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pieter Omtzigt, a former Christian Democrat who founded NSC in August, said \u2014 without mentioning Wilders \u2014 that it would be \u201cdifficult\u201d to form a coalition, and also stressed the importance of cutting immigration.<\/p>\n

Wilders could count on the support of the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement, which is set to win seven parliamentary seats and has become the voice of farmers after huge protests in 2021, when the government wanted to shut many farms to reduce nitrate emissions to comply with a court ruling. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be ignored,\u201d Wilders said, calling on parties to \u201cfind agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Former Christian Democrat Pieter Omtzigt stressed the importance of reducing immigration<\/span> \u00a9 Benjamin Westhoff\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michiel van Hulten, a former Dutch Labour politician, said that a \u201cnarrow victory would have made it easier to exclude Wilders from a new coalition on account of his anti-immigrant and anti-Islam stance. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s much harder, especially if he continues to take the \u2018constructive approach\u2019 to forming a coalition he was credited with in the last week of the campaign,\u201d van Hulten said.<\/p>\n

Forming a government could still take many months, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte staying in a caretaker capacity.<\/p>\n

Timmermans, a former EU commissioner and Dutch foreign minister, told activists at a rally in Amsterdam that \u201cit is now time to defend democracy and the rule of law\u201d. <\/p>\n

However, his left-wing alliance would also find it hard to form a government, as its main ally, the progressive, liberal D66 group, lost heavily, declining to nine seats.<\/p>\n

Many in the capital Amsterdam feel they are living in a different country from the rest of the Netherlands. The Labour-Green alliance won a third of the vote there, and the Freedom party 10 per cent, only just above pro-immigrant party Denk with 7 per cent.<\/p>\n

Green supporter Myriam Corzilius summed up the mood: \u201cWe need a republic of Amsterdam \u2014 get out of the Netherlands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Leila Abboud in Paris and Amy Kazmin in Rome<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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