🇳🇱 Politics and Elections in the Netherlands: General Election (Nov 22)

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The Central Election Committee now states elections would probably indeed take place in the middle of November because of the summer holidays.

What? How complicated can things be? What on earth should take so long compared to all other civilized countries?

[Diouf]

Wilders' victory speech was interesting.
He used the word 'tsunami' to describe the results.
Fair enough.

As I heard it, he talked about stopping the "asylum tsunami". Not in relation to the results.

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Yesilgoz now said VVD is NOT going into government because of their election loss but would be willing to support it from the outside. The mess is complete and VVD strategy (whatever it was) failed.
Rumour has it that the VVD let the government collapse in july and wanted elections in September so Omtzigt would have no time to start his own party. It all backfired spectacularly.

Sounds like an attempt to sabotage negotiations as much as possible? VVD has the experience in government, and I imagine they would have worked as the glue between NSC and PVV.

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Wilders tweeted that "I could only become PM if all parties in the coalition wanted. That was not the case". So it sounds like they are going with the strange model, where all the party leaders will stay in parliament.

https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1767973876141641870