Ace, thanx for sharing. I'm glad you're following my friends the Dutch also. Wilder did share that he's for equal freedoms for religion. No special privileges for any one religion. You gotta love the Dutch. I do.
Haruna. I hope Wilder wins and reorders the deck for our sanity. I think once he wins, his rougher edges will mellow. Buharry if there's anyone to send Aspirin to, its this Wilder cat. Ace I think you were in Dutch before. Did you like them?????? I think the Dutch are the most spiritual people on this earth.



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Ian Traynor
Thursday June 10 2010
The Guardian


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/10/netherlands-election-coalition-islam


The Netherlands' anti-Islamic MP Geert Wilders appeared on course for
major gains in a general election yesterday, more than doubling his
party's seats in the Dutch parliament and overtaking the incumbent
ruling Christian Democrats, according to exit polls last night.

Wilders' Freedom party looked to have taken third place in a close-
fought election which in the end was tied between rightwing free-
market liberals and the centre-left Labour Party, according to the
projections.

Wilders, campaigning for a halt to Muslim immigration andmosque-
building, and to a tax on Islamic head gear, increased his party's
seats from 9 to 23, according to exit polls. The result is far better
than predicted, but left Wilders trailing behind the rightwing liberal
VVD party and the centre-left Labour Party who were said to take 31
seats each. Wilders is due in court later this year to face charges of
inciting racism,

Prime minister Jan-Peter Balkenende, leader of the Christian Democrats
who have dominated for decades, was the big loser. His party was
halved in parliament, from 41 to 21. He promptly resigned his party
leadership and said he would not take his seat in parliament after
leading the Christian Democrats to a historical low in the 150-seat
second chamber in The Hague.

The election was called a year early after the Balkenende coalition
collapsed in February over disputes about participation in the war in
Afghanistan. The deadlock left the shape of future government utterly
unclear last night, and presaging weeks of haggling ? it appeared that
a four-party coalition would be needed to assemble a majority.

Wilders is a potential kingmaker, with both the liberals and the
Christian Democrats not ruling him out as a coalition partner. But the
three parties together would barely muster half the seats, not a
stable majority in a parliament split almost equally between right and
left.

Pundits predicted the core of a government would be a coalition
between the two winners, the VVD led by Mark Rutte and Labour under
the new leadership of Job Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam until earlier this
year.

The campaign was dominated by the economy and public spending, with
the free-market VVD pledging fast and deepcuts and Labour urging a
gradualist approach. A quick coalition deal between the two will be
difficult.

The VVD has notched up its best result. But the Netherlands has
weathered Europe's crisis better than most, and voters appeared to get
cold feet over the austerity urged by Rutte.

Wilders hailed his result as "magnificent", although his focus on
immigration and the flaws of traditional Dutch multi-culturalism
failed to catch fire with voters preoccupied by tax and spending
issues. But many more voted for his Freedom party than predicted by
all recent opinion polls.


guardian.co.uk Copyright (c) Guardian News and Media Limited. 2010

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