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.

  • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Wilders wants to ban mosques

    That’s cool, as long as we ban churches, cathedrals, synagogues, and temples at the same time.

    I really didnt know this guy was still around, he hasn’t been making the world headlines so much in recent years.

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      11 months ago

      Oppressing people’s religious beliefs is not “cool.”

      People will still practice those beliefs while they are being oppressed. It won’t create an atheist utopia. It’ll just create more terrorism, crime, and discrimination.

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        11 months ago

        Ban religion it will be religious groups throwing down the governement.

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        11 months ago

        Limiting what structures can be built/open and where isn’t oppression, it’s standard government policy everywhere on earth. People can still believe whatever they want.

        Only discriminatory if it favors one group over another, so ban them all.

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          I am not discussing structures.

          Also the government restricting building at the whims of a local populace is what caused our current housing crisis so not exactly the argument I’d make about how efficient that system can be.