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

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If the election does end up in a mathematically hopeless parliament, perhaps the often touted "technocratic" government will finally make its reappearance in the Netherlands for real.

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He says he has a manifesto, but no candidate list, but has until Oct 8th for it. More news to follow.

honest question: how will he possibly recruit and vet a full slate of serious candidates in just 49 days? has there been any speculation/discussion in Dutch media about this? Because he's basically starting from scratch here and it's not like he has an existing network of party activists to recruit from.

If he's genuine about playing the long game here, he could actually deliberately limit the size of the slate to only the most well-vetted people and accept that he might very well lose out on seats due to having too few candidates to fill them. Of course the (almost?) unheard of outcome of other parties getting those seats instead, could risk harming the democratic legitimacy of the incoming parliament and the political process in general. Then again, the LPF is still in vivid memory.

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If asked whether voters want Keijzer (BBB), Timmermans (GL-PvdA) or Yesilgöz (VVD) as PM, this is the result by party (allen = all voters):

What immediately jumps out to me is how right wing the SP vote is and how left wing the CU vote is.

What about how badly Keijzer is doing among what remains of her former party's supporters? They must really see her as a traitor if she's doing that much worse than even Timmermans, the very embodiment of the party's archnemesis, the PvdA.

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It wouldn't surprise me if the old CDA ends up being effectively reconstituted in the medium future by a fusion with NSC and/or BBB.

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Maybe it is too much of a (pointless) Ship of Theseus discussion whether, if a party with a different name takes over the same demographic of another, it is really a different party.