Who is Geert Wilders, the surprise champion of the Dutch election?

.ON NOV 22ND Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant Person for Flexibility (PVV) finished first in the Dutch standard vote-casting, winning 37 of the 150 seats in assemblage, or even 23.6% of the vote. His victory was a substantial unpleasant surprise. Yet the named beneficiary of this sudden rely on the hard right is no startup.

The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that gathering in 2004 over what he considered its softness in the direction of Islam, and established the PVV in 2006. He has consistently had a strong bottom of elector help, however has actually spent his legislative profession mainly on the sidelines, shut out of effect through other celebrations’ refusal to partner with him.

Now there is a great chance that this is going to alter.