Who is Geert Wilders, the unpleasant surprise winner of the Dutch vote-casting?

.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Individual for Independence (PVV) completed to begin with in the Dutch standard vote-casting, winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament, or even 23.6% of the vote. His triumph was a substantial shock. However the beneficiary of the abrupt count on the hard right is actually no upstart.

The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch parliament, having met 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that celebration in 2004 over what he considered its own softness towards Islam, as well as established the PVV in 2006. He possesses regularly possessed a strong foundation of voter assistance, but has spent his parliamentary career typically on the subsidiaries, shut out of effect through other events’ refusal to collaborate with him.

Currently there is a likelihood that this will transform.