Economy

Who is Geert Wilders, the shock winner of the Dutch vote-casting?

.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders's anti-immigrant Individual for Freedom (PVV) ended up to begin with in the Dutch overall election, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His success was a huge unpleasant surprise. However the named beneficiary of this quick turn to the difficult right is actually no startup. The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities in the direction of Islam, as well as founded the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a strong foundation of voter assistance, but has actually invested his legislative job mostly on the subsidiaries, shut out of influence by other events' rejection to team up with him. Now there is a good chance that this will transform.