And then you have an endless series of parties and figures, which, due to the lack of an electoral threshold and the enormous fragmentation, can also play a decisive role. For example, heavy blows threaten the government parties D66 and CDA, which were increasingly in a bad way during Rutte IV.
Certainly the CDA – once the party of the Netherlands – is in danger of being completely blown away. The party sees the storm hanging so hard that no one wants to become party leader. The question is also whether the ChristenUnie will be rewarded for its opposition to Rutte’s migration law. In this way, the small party with roots in the Bible belt itself is partly responsible for the fall of the government.
Geert Wilders is also difficult to estimate. During the provincial elections, his PVV performed worse than expected, but in elections that revolve around migration and with itself as the eternal number 1, it could go either way.
And then you have parties from left to right, from European to conspiracy, from Bible to animal, all of which take away their seat or more, also depending on the figures who lead those parties. It makes the Dutch elections even more unpredictable than they always have been.
2023-07-11 09:53:00
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