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On 2017-03-16 01:13, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/dutch-elections-greenleft-jesse-klaver
Well this article's a bit misleading in talking about Groenlinks being
the "big winner". It only seems that way because they did really badly
in the previous election. Essentially ALL of the parties that were out
of power increased their vote from the last election, while the parties
in the current government got trampled. So it was another case of voter
rebellion, but thankfully Wilders' fascist PVV was not the main
beneficiary thereof (although his vote increased from the last election,
he got much less than the 20% that was feared).
But the unquestionable "big loser" was the mainstream social-democratic
party, connected to the unions, the PvdA (aka "Dutch Labor party") which
has been sharing power with the establishment right wing. That means the
left social democrats SP now have more seats than the establishment
social democrats, again a sign of voter dissatisfaction more than any
shift to the left. The leading (rightwing) VVD is going to have a lot of
trouble forming a government among diverse parties to achieve a majority
in parliament; I suspect it will take at least weeks of negotiations or
a deadlock.
- Jeff
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