‘Game Changer’ — Geert Wilders’ Populist Anti-Mass Migration Party Surges to Top Place in Dutch General Election Poll
by Kurt Zindulka
Geert Wilders, a staunch critic of Islam and the European Union, hailed a recent poll that put his anti-mass migration party tied for first place in next week’s general election as a “game changer”.
Dutch voters will head to the polls on Wednesday for a general election that could be a major signifier of the future political landscape of the European Union. The election was triggered after the fall of the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who announced his resignation from Dutch politics earlier this year over a dispute on migration after over thirteen years in power. Polls have suggested the likely formation of a right-wing coalition government amid growing discontent in the country over mass migration.
The mood, which has seen right-wing and populist parties surge in support across Europe, is apparently playing out similarly in the Netherlands, with a poll from Dutch pollster Maurice de Hond on Saturday showing Geert Wilder’s Party for Freedom (PVV) tied for first place alongside Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), now led by Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius.
Both Wilders’ Eurosceptic and anti-mass migration PVV party and the centre-right VVD were projected by the poll to secure 26 seats in the House of Representatives a piece in the general election.
Wilders, who during his 25 years in politics has long been chastised in the establishment media as “far-right” over his strident opposition to the Islamisation of the Netherlands, hailed the survey as a “game changer”, declaring that: “No one can ignore the PVV voter anymore!”