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The anti-Islam, euroskeptic radical Geert Wilders is projected to be the shock winner of the Dutch election.

In a dramatic result that will stun European politics, his Freedom Party (PVV) is set to win around 35 of the 150 seats in parliament — more than double the number it secured in the 2021 election, according to exit polls.

Frans Timmermans’ Labour-Green alliance is forecast to take second place, winning 25 seats — a big jump from its current 17. Dilan Yeşilgöz, outgoing premier Mark Rutte’s successor as head of the center-right VVD, suffered heavy losses and is on course to take 24 seats, 10 fewer than before, according to the updated exit poll by Ipsos for national broadcaster NOS.

A win for Wilders will put the Netherlands on track — potentially — for a dramatic shift in direction, after Rutte’s four consecutive centrist governments. The question now, though, is whether any other parties are willing to join Wilders to form a coalition. Despite emerging as the largest party, he will lack an overall majority in parliament.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NL is one of the best countries in the world.

That can change. Norway is also one of the best countries in the world, but they've been doing the same thing I see happening in the UK: not funding health care adequately, police corruption scandals, refusing to decriminalise and legalise drugs, not really using the oil fund money enough (unlike Alaska (US) which pays dividends to its citizens from its oil fund, not exactly a left-wing US state compared to Norway), welfare benefits being reduced, the Norwegian state used to fund housing coop development which led to 20% of our population living in democratic housing but isn't doing that anymore and now we're in a housing crisis, inequality has grown over the last 50 years, union density has reduced over the last 50 years, ...

When we're talking about things going to shit we mean relative to where we were before. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I wish we had in the UK that Norway has, but the trajectory looks oddly similar to what happened and is happening in the UK. We're currently boiling frogs and because things are going to shit so slowly it's harder to notice. Like, so much counter evidence to what we're doing exists around the world if we simply look at how other areas are solving problems. For example, Finland is the only country in the EU where homelessness isn't increasing and housing prices have actually decreased* - wanna guess how they did that? (hint: the state gave people free housing)

* at least until recently, housing markets are weird now because of the inflation, but theirs were falling before that