(03-19-2017, 03:44 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: This article is garbage. First off the PVV went from the third party in a proportional system to second. Yes they didn't pick up as many seats as they wanted--no one ever does in such a system, however, the VVD either has to form coalition with far left groups ideologically repugnant to them (VVD is classified as Center Right) or PVV since the Center Left Labor party was obliterated in the election.
Considering the Atlantic was wrong all through the US election I have no confidence in their "analysis" if you can call it that of Dutch elections.
Wilders is so extreme and unwilling to compromise on his insane views that nobody is willing to form a coalition with his party, so that he went from 3rd to 2nd because of the Labor Party's weakness is irrelevant.
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