Dutch Establishment Rejects Election Results

Hudson new york ^ | July 7, 2010 | Thomas Landen

[Steve Van Doorn]

Dutch Queen Beatrix does not like Member of Parliament Geert Wilders, the winner of the recent elections in the Netherlands; she is attempting to prevent the formation of a right-wing coalition that includes him.

On June 9, 2010, the Liberal VVD became the largest party in the Netherlands. It won 31 of the 150 seats in the Dutch House of Representatives, compared to 22 in the 2006 general election. The largest winner of the election, however, was the PVV, the Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, which won 24 seats, compared to only 9 in 2006. The parties of the resigning center-left coalition of Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende suffered considerable losses. Mr. Balkenende’s own Christian-Democrat CDA fell to 21 seats from 41; the Labor Party fell to 30 seats from 33; and the Christian Union (CU) fell to 5 seats from 6.

Theoretically, the electorate’s major swing to the right allows VVD-leader Mark Rutte to form a government with Mr. Wilders’ PVV and the Christian-Democrats. This coalition would have 76 of the 150 seats and could count on the support of the small right-wing Protestant party SGP (2 seats) and perhaps even the CU (5 seats). Such a VVD-PVV-CDA coalition is that preferred by Mr. Rutte and also by the Dutch electorate.

By appointing Herman Tjeenk Willink as her informer and representative in the coalition talks, the Queen has made it clear that she wants Labor to be part of the coalition. Before the elections, Labor explicitly stated that it would not form a government with the PVV.

[kabumpo]

don’t agree. The same that much of what is happening now in the US is related to FDR, much of what happens in Holland is still tied to WWII. It’s called CONTEXT.

[Southack]

No. The current Dutch elections have nothing to do with WW2.

That is just an attempt to rationalize using the tired and unimaginative “Nazi” insult.

Give it up.