Turnout was 40% at 15:45. In 2017, it was 43% at the time (with 81.6% total turnout).
If there was a PM from a party other than the largest, this would be for the first time in forty years.
David, who did you vote for?
Immigration is the most important topic to me, which makes it an obvious vote, but besides that, I also agree with the PVV on nearly all of the topics that are actually important to me. After 7 October, Wilders' vocal rejection of the disgusting antisemitic protests on Dutch streets and his steadfast support for Israel has been important to me too, but it's really the total package - immigration most importantly, in the end that's the cause of these protests too - that mattered.
I considered BBB too, but found them too unstable. Their worldview - some type of community-centered conservatism - enthuses me, but nobody knows how they will develop yet. I voted for 'surprise parties' that turned out to be ideologically unstable (Forum) or internally unstable (Forum, JA21) too often already, and I don't want that anymore. Wilders is ideologically close to me, what you see is what you get with him, and now that he could actually participate in government again there was really no reason why not to do it. With a PVV vote, I am also sure I am not inadvertently voting for a government with Timmermans anywhere near it.
There is something inherently f**ked up about supporting an authoritarian party that wants to destroy democratic institutions and blow up EU in a time solitary is needed more than because you’re obsessed with kicking Muslim immigrants out of a country you don’t even live in anymore
