I don’t understand what you say about Wilders and his PVV. They are 12/150 in the House and 9/75 in the Senate. That is a pretty low number of seats to expect to be a kingmaker as it would have taken them and 2 more partners from the current opposition to kick out the PvdA in the House and the Senate is lost for any right leaning government anyway.
Of course I might be very wrong as my interest in Netherlands politics has been very casual. Could there have been a better coalition with PVV in it?
You can’t directly compare proportional representation Netherlands result with majoritarian UK and France anyway. PVV has much less popular support than either UKIP or FN.
I couldn’t find the previous pages I’d read. His wikipage has some info about his having brought about early elections by withdrawing his party’s support for the prev gov’t. They don’t seem to recruit candidates to run for office often enough for their own good.
> The Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a right-wing populist[13] political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 2005 as the successor to Geert Wilders’ one-man party in the House of Representatives, it won nine seats in the 2006 general election, making it the fifth largest party in parliament. In the 2010 general election it won 24 seats, making it the third largest party. Since then, the PVV has agreed to support the minority government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, without having ministers in the cabinet. However the PVV withdrew its support in April 2012 due to differences over budget cuts.[14] It came third in the 2014 European Parliament election, winning 4 out of 26 seats.
(it appears to be third largest)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom
breakdown of parties in the Dutch parliament:
(heading “Summary of the 12 September 2012 Dutch House of Representatives election results”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Netherlands)