Holland Takes a Big Swing To the Far Right
World | Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:58:09 am PDT
Extremist anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who wants to ban the Koran and make the religion of Islam illegal) won big in yesterday’s elections in the Netherlands: Election triumph puts anti-Islam Wilders in line for Dutch Cabinet role.
The Freedom Party of the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders emerged as the third force in Dutch politics last night, more than doubling its number of seats in Parliament in the country’s general elections.
Exit polls predicted that Mr Wilders would command 23 seats, up from 9 — pushing the Christian Democrats, led by the outgoing Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, into fourth place.
With the Dutch Labour Party running neck-and-neck with the cost-cutting right-wing Liberal Party (VVD), it was unclear who would form the next government. …
Mr Wilders, who wants to ban Muslim veils and the building of new mosques, is constitutionally bound to take part in coalition talks. He could be offered a place in a Cabinet chosen by Mr Rutte, who has said that the Freedom Party is “just another party”, but Mr Cohen [former mayor of Amsterdam] has ruled out sharing power with the controversial critic of Islam on moral grounds.
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