Posted on 05/13/2002 11:57:12 AM PDT by July 4th
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31 Christian Democrats
28 Pim Fortuyn's List
25 Labour
25 Liberals
15 Greens
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Nipo poll |
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With only two days left before Wednesday's general election, Pim Fortuyn's List has overtaken Labour to take second place with 18.5% of the votes, according to the survey by the Nipo research bureau.
A poll by another organisation, Nova, on 3 May put him on 12.4% support, while a Nipo survey on 1 May gave him 17%.
The new poll - the first since Mr Fortuyn's death - puts him only two percentage points behind the leaders, the right-wing Christian Democrats, whose support registers at 20.5%.
Wim Kok's Labour party has been beaten into third
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Support for Mr Fortuyn's party was registered at 18.5%, which would give it 28 of the country's 150 seats.
The Labour Party of outgoing Prime Minister Wim Kok has slid to 16.5%, the poll suggests - dramatically lower than the 29% it achieved in the 1998 election.
If the poll is accurate, it would mean Labour losing nearly half its 45 seats.
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 The sympathy vote will generate extra support - the problem is that no-one knows if they are able to offer suitable people for the
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Kees Lunshof
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All election campaigning was stopped after Mr Fortuyn's murder, but BBC correspondents said it had been thought that his party could benefit from a sympathy vote.
Dutch political commentators told BBC News Online that Mr Fortuyn's party was very likely to be in the new Dutch cabinet, if the poll predictions were accurate.
His party could get as many as four or five seats in the 12-member cabinet, said Kees Lunshof of De Telegraaf newspaper.
The Netherlands was shocked at Pim Fortuyn's murder
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"The sympathy vote will generate extra support," he told BBC News Online.
"The problem is that no-one knows if they are able to offer suitable people for the job - it's such a new party."
And Frank Poortuyes, of De Volkskrant newspaper, said the left was "taking a hammering" partly because some voters held it responsible for demonising Mr Fortuyn, thereby playing a role in his murder.
The margin of error of the opinion poll is 1.8% for the big parties.
More than 2,100 people were interviewed, fewer than the usual sample of 3,000, as polling was also suspended temporarily after Mr Fortuyn's death.
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Translation: "I, wheezer, fold."
Nope Laz, I'll enjoy watching you work down your list of who can come in, and who can't, and watch to see if you grant a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to hispanics and swedish Au Pairs.
Hispanics? Wonderful and industrious people, rich culture. Admitted.
Swiss? Inventive, mechanically brilliant. Admitted.
Still waiting for you to show me exceptions to my rule.
If you know any Swedish au pairs who would like to care for a 56 yr. old let me know.:>)
You would kill a man to be able to prove me wrong. The sole reason you do not, is because you cannot.
Well there you go. Iran also had made great strides towards a secular society, and might have once been thought of more kindly. They still are the most cosmopolitan and modern of the Islamic states, as is -- believe it or not -- Iraq.
If Iraq got rid of the chain around it's neck, Saddam Hussien, the country would explode with prosperity, since they are not a strongly fundamentalist Islamic country.
Islam in general and Wahibbism in particular, is one of the few religions in the world that preaches backwardness and lack of modernity as a virtue. There are a few other races and religions that do so -- Amish spring to mind -- but no other race or religion that embraces backwardsness proactively attempts to forcefully convert other nations and religions to its Medieval way.
If you know any Swedish au pairs who would like to care for a 56 yr. old let me know.:>)
I get first dibs. :o)
And isn't De Volkskrant a leftist paper, so that it would only report this if it was impossible to avoid reporting it?
An nation's civility is measured according to the inverse of the presence of Islam.
C=Civility
I=Islam
That's a funny name.
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