Economy

Who is Geert Wilders, the surprise winner of the Dutch political election?

.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders's anti-immigrant Party for Liberty (PVV) finished initially in the Dutch general political election, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His victory was actually a huge shock. But the recipient of this particular abrupt count on the difficult right is no startup. The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having met 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities towards Islam, and established the PVV in 2006. He has regularly had a sound base of citizen support, however has actually devoted his legislative career usually on the subsidiaries, locked out of influence by other celebrations' rejection to collaborate with him. Currently there is a good chance that this will definitely transform.