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Breaking: it's now official, the pro-EU D66 party came first in the Dutch election. Their best result ever. The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. It’s a narrow victory with D66 just 15,155 votes ahead of the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders.

davekeating.substack.comThe most pro-EU party just won big in the Dutch electionD66 had a surprise surge, tripling their seats in yesterday's Netherlands election—and its openly gay leader Rob Jetten is set to become prime minister.

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Congratulations Dutch voters. Admit it, The t***p regime was the cautionary tale that helped you come to your senses and reject that aspiring authoritarian creep. Now if only the American voters would WTFU.

No, it isn't official yet, it isn't the national press agency's call, and they just said, based on historical data, that D66 would be unbeatable. however unlikely, the PVV could still end up biggest. On monday we will know for sure. and 15k votes is absolutely nothing. 150K still to be counted.

Not quite the final vote count - they've just said it's mathematically impossible for the PVV to catch up. Mail-in votes from abroad and one -rather pro-PVV- town haven't been added yet.

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Maga is spreading worldwide and the people are resoundingly saying not in our country they already went through Hitler I doubt they want to do it again because the outcome was ugly and it's happening in our country as well

The bigger issue with regard to these elections is that a rising number of the Dutch electorate are voting for parties with radical right wing agendas, young voters in particular. If this trend continues the Dutch will one day end up living under an authoritarian, xenophobic administration.

they should look to the happy youth that voted for Trump, see what that brought them. They may end up with no democracy to speak of, and a generational poverty starting with their own A vote by youth for the far right is wasted, because there is no positive return, you are only a tool

In fact the proportion of voters who voted for far-right parties went slightly down in this election compared to 2023 - the far right parties will have fewer seats. So for whatever it's worth, the trend stopped rising since 2023.

The supposed centre moved further right. D66 have pledged to break international law on asylum seekers, allowing only those invited in to enter the country. It's just a stepping stone to fascism

That rather depends on what you define as far right. I would also place the VVD under Yesilgös and the SGP in this category. Add those two parties to PVV, JA21, and FvD then combined they have 67 seats, they only need to get above the 75 seat threshold to have a majority. The clock is ticking…

Agreed and they are all completely in line with the neoliberal economic orthodoxy. The 'social liberal' veneer is trivial for where it matters. In one sense it's hopeless because the Maastricht Treaty's S&GP dictates such orthodoxy.

VVD is not far right. They only voted anti-immigration a few times because they were in government together with PVV. SGP is conservative christian, they won't support the far right.

Will the British and Americans, yes Trump and ReformBrexitlandia, please sort out the inbreeding in your countries and then come back. Wilders will go back to the rock he came from. Wilders, Trump, Starmer, Boris, Farage. MAGA, Brexit, Two countries hellbound of fucking up the world.

This happened because the Dutch security services stepped in and designated Israel and hate mongers like Geert Wilders as national security threats. They then went after their versions of Tommy Robinson and zionist funded podcasters. Finally, they blocked Musk and Theil from fouling their country.

Fuck you ass hole. You’re not a supporter of Israel. You’re a wilders bitch who likes genocide. Stay the fuck out of my country’s politics and go suck fascists.

I live in the Netherlands, non of this happens. We don't limit free speech.. Even if we don't like it. We won because he had a great message of positivity and inclusion. Geert isn't marked as a threat. Isreal also isn't, all parties have their own view on it. Podcasters were not targeted etc...

What is unit 8200? I'm living here. Ik kan het bewijzen met de Nederlandse taal als je wil 😉 I'm born here and I've lived here all my life. Please don't tell me I'm not from my country 😅 Then you reference something that has nothing to do with NL? Are you a bot?

Slightly misleading; the PVV party don't have members but they do have MPs, so the actual reason they can't form a government is not any procedural reason, but that they're a bunch of incompetent racist clowns who couldn't manage a lemonade stand, and no one will work with them.

I have this strange feeling. These ultra right parties grow in countries when everyone believe that are growing in other countries. It’s much like a finance bubble. So when one country pops the bubble they soon lose in other countries as well. A part from that I must say Donald Trump has done a…

If you'd understand the system, you'd say differently. the far right PVV lost 10-11 seats, and yes, is still head to head with the democrats '66. Both on 26 seats, of 175. Which means it will be a 4 party coalition, and 11 parties in opposition. Of those, there are 2 far right parties.

the far right didnt really shrink at all. The voters just spread out over more far right parties. and the centrists moved further right. This is no result to celebarate.

Depends how you count. There are so many parties that the largest party has only 26 seats (out of a 150) and even if you count other far right groups with PVV, they still don't manage more than a third of the votes. So put another way the overwhelming majority of the country rejects the far right.

You misunderstand. The Dutch PLAN on coalitions. For every .67% of the vote, a party gets one seat in the lower house. These are the parties that got seats. It's a LOT of parties. The threshold for getting seats is very low. In many countries it's 3 or 5%. It's been this way for 100 years.

A party gets its first place finish ever and the far right party comes second. Sounds like the people are most interested in change and are picking whoever they think will bring it most reliably.

Thank god for the world’s sake! Hopefully, Democracy can “hold on” in Europe and not be swayed to accept hate-filled, xenophobic, and misogynistic leadership for their countries.🧐Unfortunately, America has failed this test at the moment.

We need to stop centralizing trump in regards to other people and countries. Narcissists hate to be ignored so it has that bonus. We should talk about him directly still when important of course 🤓 but otherwise he’s but one clown and the world has other important stories.

The 15,000 vote lead over Wilders is pointless. What matters now is whether D66 gets 26 or 27 seats, and whether a center-left and center-right coalition are both possible. Ironically, Jetten's job is easier if D66 gets just 26 seats, which leads more quickly to a new cabinet.