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Who is actually Geert Wilders, the shock victor of the Dutch vote-casting?

.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders's anti-immigrant Party for Liberty (PVV) ended up to begin with in the Dutch general vote-casting, gaining 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or 23.6% of the ballot. His success was a huge surprise. But the recipient of this particular quick turn to the difficult right is actually no upstart. The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that event in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities towards Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He possesses constantly had a solid base of elector assistance, but has devoted his legislative occupation mainly on the side projects, shut out of influence through various other events' rejection to partner with him. Now there is a great chance that this will definitely alter.

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