Thierry Baudet’s right-wing populist Forum for Democracy party will receive eight seats above all expectations. That is four times more than the current number. The party thus becomes bigger than GroenLinks. This makes Forum for Democracy one of the big winners of these elections.
However, the end of the Forum for Democracy seemed to be in sight at the end of 2020 anti-Semitic and homophobic messages of JFVD, the party’s youth movement, leaked to the media. Now there is the profit for the party after all.
“That has everything to do with corona,” says Reygaert. “Baudet wants to liberate the Netherlands again, does not believe in the measures, thinks it is all exaggerated and thinks corona is just an improved flu. And that is catching on with voters. Polls show that his ideas about corona were decisive for 70 percent of the voters. “
Listen below to the conversation with political scientist André Krouwel in “The Morning”. (Read more under the audio)
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