2023-11-23 10:04:35
The PVV (Freedom Party), according to the Ipsos institute, won 35 seats out of 150, a victory considered very comfortable in a particularly fragmented lower house in the Netherlands. Frans Timmermans’ left-wing environmentalist alliance is second with 25 seats, while the center-right VVD won 24 seats. However, Geert Wilders is not guaranteed to become Prime Minister, the leaders of the three other major parties having assured that they would not participate in a government led by the PVV. But the result of this election causes an earthquake both in the country but also in Europe.
Immediately, Marine Le Pen congratulated Geert Wilders on his “spectacular” victory. “Congratulations to @geertwilderspvv and the PVV for their spectacular performance in the legislative elections which confirms the growing attachment to the defense of national identities. It is because there are people who refuse to see the national torch extinguished that the hope for change remains alive in Europe,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Congratulation to @geertwilderspvv and to the PVV for their spectacular performance in the legislative elections which confirms the growing attachment to the defense of national identities. It is because there are people who refuse to see the national torch extinguished that the hope of…
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) November 22, 2023
After Italy with Giorgia Meloni, Geert Wilders’ victory marks another turn to the right in Europe. The PVV notably promised a referendum on whether or not the Netherlands should remain in the European Union. Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban hailed “the winds of change” on X.
Geert Wilders, sometimes referred to as the “Dutch Trump” who did not hesitate to call Moroccans “scum” before being condemned, built his political career by fighting against what he calls an “Islamic invasion” of the West. The PVV program proposes the reestablishment of Dutch border control, the detention and expulsion of illegal immigrants, the return of Syrian asylum seekers and the reintroduction of work permits for intra-EU workers.
For Sandrine Rousseau, the MP for Paris, “Today, Islamophobia gained power in an important country in Europe. Hatred of others never allows you to get better,” she emphasizes on X.
Today, Islamophobia gained power in an important country in Europe.
Hatred of others never allows you to get better.— Sandrine Rousseau (@sandrousseau) November 22, 2023
For Raphaël Glucksmann, left-wing MEP, “If we do not find sufficient power within ourselves to convince that we need to save the European Union, it is in danger of internal and external death,” he said. launched on Télématin on France 2.
???????? “The European Union is in danger of internal and external death. Putin is winning his bet”
Raphaël Glucksmann deplores the victory of Geert Wilders’ far right in the Netherlands. #Les4V @rglucks1 pic.twitter.com/aJELbJ5Yg5
— Telematin (@telematin) November 23, 2023
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