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Geert Wilders possible Prime MinisterDutch divided over Geert Wilders as radical MP eyes premiershipBy Nick Meo in Rotterdam Published: 7:00AM BST 14 Jun 2009 Until last week, the Bernard family had the normal concerns of any middle-class Dutch family – putting their teenage children through university, living a greener life, and paying the mortgage. Geert Wilders began to see a rise in his popularity after an Amsterdam appeals court decided to try him for anti-Muslim comments in January Photo: EPA But that has all changed since the European election – and the triumph by Geert Wilders, the right-wing populist and outspoken critic of Islam who in February was banned from entering Britain as a threat to "community harmony". To many abroad Mr Wilders, a Dutch MP, appears an old-fashioned racist whose views put him on a par with other far-Right politicians elsewhere in Europe. Yet in its first ever test of national electoral support among the normally tolerant Dutch, his anti-immigration Party for Freedom which he founded in 2006 won 17 per cent of the votes – making it the second biggest party. That has shaken the country to its core – opening up the real possibility that, through the Dutch coalition system, Mr Wilders could win power at the next general election . . . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/w...-radical-MP-eyes-premiership.html |
| flyupsidedown |
It is easy to see why he is becoming so popular in Europe and why he may become the next Prime Minister of his country. He alone is leading the West at recognizing the foolish error of liberal socialist cultural relativism. It is a good sign for the West that there is a democratic venting of passions on this issue through elections.
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