Dutch election: anti-Islam, far-right Geert Wilders set for big win

3 years ago by sv1sjp to c/europe

The far-right populist is heading for a huge election victory in one of the biggest political upsets in the Netherlands since World War II.

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Treczoks 40 points 3 years ago

Calm down. While he got the biggest share, it is "just" 35 seats in a 150 seats parliament. He would need another 41 seats in coalition to get anywhere, which means (as his share is the largest) he would not only need one, but at least two partners willing to form a coalition with and a government under him.

While those 35 seats are still 35 seats too many, I doubt he will run the country.

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Crazazy 21 points 3 years ago

Right now people are theorizing 2 possible coalitions, the first one is PVV - NSC - VVD and the other one is GLPVDA - NSC - VVD - D66. This means we're either getting a far-right populist as the prime minister or we are getting a coalition that will get us absolutely nowhere and will change nothing from the status quo, while also likely destroying leftist support even more because of how little to coalition will be capable of vs. what the leftist party (GLPVDA) promised

We're not doing okay

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Sir_Fridge 1 point 3 years ago

Then again the first option is rather likely to implode in record time. Meaning we'll have to have elections again.

Or at least I hope so.

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