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

.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders's anti-immigrant Individual for Flexibility (PVV) completed initially in the Dutch overall vote-casting, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or 23.6% of the vote. His triumph was a substantial unpleasant surprise. Yet the named beneficiary of this particular quick count on the hard right is no startup. The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He quit that party in 2004 over what he considered its own gentleness towards Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He possesses always possessed a sound foundation of voter assistance, however has actually spent his parliamentary profession usually on the subsidiaries, locked out of impact through other celebrations' rejection to team up with him. Currently there is a great chance that this will certainly modify.