Far Right Gains Most In Dutch Elections , page 1

AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--An exit poll in the Dutch elections Wednesday indicates a draw between the Liberal Party and the Labor Party, with the far-right Freedom Party gaining most, setting the stage for difficult coalition talks to form a majority in government.

Both the center-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, more commonly known as the Liberal Party, led by Mark Rutte, and the Labor Party led by the former mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, are set to have 31 seats each out of 150 parliamentary seats, according to the exit poll from Synovate, a research agency.

In the previous government, a three-party coalition of center and left parties that collapsed in February after internal disagreement over the deployment of Dutch forces in Afghanistan, the Liberal Party held 22 seats while the Labor Party had 33 seats.

The biggest gainer of Wednesday's elections, however is the Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, who was branded an extremist by the U.K. government for his anti-Islamist rhetoric, which is set to grow to 22 seats, from the current 9.

"As we are the biggest winner of today's elections, we want to play part in the coalition talks," Wilders said on television Wednesday night.

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The Freedom party is not set to grow to 24 seats, instead of 22 seats mentioned in the report. It's kind of the general tendency in Europe: the far-right is on the rise.

According to the report the UK considers Mr. Wilders extremist, he was also barred from entering the UK for a couple months about a year ago.

If he was to be appointed Prime Minister, which he won't, but if he was I wonder what the UK would do in that situation. It would be pretty hilarious IMO, they called a guy an extremist and barred him from entering the country then he becomes Netherlands Prime Minister.

Back to subject. Here are the full results from the Dutch General Election, 2010.

Seats.....Change..Vote...Party

21.........-20.........14%..Christian Democratic Appeal
30.........-3...........20%..Dutch Labour Party
15.........-10.........10%...Socialist Party
31.........+9..........20%...People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
24.........+15........16%...Party for Freedom
10.........+3..........7%....GreenLeft
5...........-1...........3%....ChristianUnion
10..........+7.........7%....Democrats 66
2............+/- 0.....1%.....Party for the Animals
2............+/- 0.....2%.....Reformed Political Party
0............+/- 0.....1%.....Proud of the Netherlands




So if the liberals were to form an alliance of CDA, VVD, PVV, and D66 they would have 86/150 seats in the House of Representatives giving them a solid majority.

[edit on 6/10/10 by Misoir]

reply to post by republicadelbanano

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the multi culti is just the problem why Wilders is winning..
People forget that in ones nation only one culture has the leading role and has to be supreme and that is the nations own culture and people have to live there lifes along and behave acordingly .
That said they have the right of there own views and religion as long as they don't put it above the culture , ways of life , norms and values of the nation they came to life.
And not as what we see in the Uk and they are planning in France , belgium and the Netherlands and that is the introduction and following sharia muslim law above the nations own law stating that those laws are flawed because they are not made by allah .. They are trying to press it true just like the nazi's in ww2 did when they tried to impose there laws apone us as they where the oppressors .
If people coming too The Netherlands say that our values and law system is not what they want why did they come in the first place??
They are getting free benefits where others work for ( not only the dutch but also people of foreign origine who are willing and doing there best in society ) are over repressented in crime ect..
They want the same rights as hardworking and paying people but not willing to do the same as the hardworking and overpaying people whom have to work for the social benifits of the people who are misbehaving and sorry to say it is manly the muslim and foreign part of the population ..
Learn the facts... the criminal mexican immigrants ( Not the hard working mexican immigrants ) do the same they want the same benifits ect and don't work or do something benifitial for the USA ...
Thats one of the reasons why health care systems fail because of non working criminal immigrants who are not willing to do anything benifitial for the system ect want the same benifits of the hardworking part .

This is not racist this is common sense.. I don't want to pay for criminals from foreign origine who dont want to partisipate in our society.. I rather see them leave and go back to a place where they are happy and can do the same as they are used because the behavior they have might be accepted in there home country but not here thats why I voted for Wilders ..
its easy for outsiders and criminal huggers to say wilders is racist but just read and learn before claim things you don't know anything about..

reply to post by MarkLuitzen

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I do not know any PVV voters so I would like to ask you a few questions.

What is your opnion of Wilders dropping his AOW standpoint in exchange for a greater chanche of joining the now being formed government?

I mean dont get me wrong. The media and Job Cohen are acting like it is a crime whilst most of the time dropping political points and backstabbig the voters is called good politics.

Even so I believe that Wilders got a quite a few votes on that promise and he dropped it like a brick. To be fair I did hear him say that he had said in an earlier stage that he would drop the AOW point if it came down to it.

Dont you think it is to convienent that every time we have one populist ( wilders ) painting the scene? It doesnt sit well with me.

You know in the earilier days it was quite common for dutch woman to wear various forms of head cloth. What is wrong with people wearing such attire now?

As far as I know crimes have only dropped over the past years. The only real thing that has increased seems to be fear and xenophobia.
Do you believe it is fair that wilders got such a major victory just out of fear when their are much more pressing matters like our long term economic well being and ofcourse radical economic reform?

I know I have put a bit of my biass in my questions, but I would like to have a nice political debate about it. I will read the totallity of his party program ( wilders ) so I can make educated remarks when the next post comes around.

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