Politics and Elections in the Netherlands: Rutte III era

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Wait Kaag is married to a Fatah politician?

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lol at SP. Shouldn't they be having some sort of leadership change?

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Do Wilders and Baudet get on?

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Would parties like VVD and CDA be open to working with FvD?

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Can't wait for PvdD to get double digits.

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Utrecht poll

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How Islamist is NIDA? Are they the weird woke Islam you get on campuses or what?

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How Islamist is NIDA? Are they the weird woke Islam you get on campuses or what?

I have no idea how "weird woke campus Islam" is, as this doesn't exist here

I would define it as the sort of person who says stuff like "yas queer hijabi representation!", and very earnestly quotes Edward Saidisms constantly.

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were PvdD not invoted to the left-Islam bloc?

also will Aboutaleb lose his position if  the PvdA is weakened?

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I think it's a learning curve: a lot of young people are steeped in irony and memes, and believe that its all very clever and funny to argue from absurd directions and use taboo references to nasty regimes, or jokingly argue for diabolical causes. Unfortunately this often spectacularly backfires offline, as we've seen many times from both left and right wing activists.

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Cracking up that PvdD almost beat SP in Amsterdam.

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Weird question: what are the different parties' positions on prostitution laws? Especially with the increased interest in the Nordic model in some quarters?

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Are local PVV groups under the same cordon sanitaire as the national party?

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DENK, I think, is far too toxic for any party to support, even more so than the PVV. There are other big problems as well: they and SP hate hate hate each other because of the PKK issue and the PvdA resent them for stealing part of their base.

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Why is the CDA doing so badly?

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Traditionally it's normally the D66 that has wild negative swings when they're in government. My understanding was that the CDA base are old and gradually dying off, but still loyal.

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How come Denk didn't get a seat? Turks not turning out?

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If Wilders were to disappear from the scene, would essentially all his votes flow to Forum, or would his more working class votes balk at voting for Baudet?

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does anybody expect the PvdA to get a boost from its EU result, or is everybody just putting it down to Timmermania?

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Recent poll:

VVD: 32
GL: 17
PvdA: 16
CDA: 15
PVV: 13
D66: 11
FVD: 11
SP: 9
CU: 8
50+: 7
PvdD: 6
SGP: 4
DENK: 1

Basically, an almighty fight for second, although in most polls PvdA seem to be more often up top over GL. PVV seem to have stolen back the mantle of the populist right from FvD.

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Marianne Thieme is going to step down from her mandate and as leader of the Partij van de Dieren. She has been at the top of the party 17 years. It comes as PvdD have to decide whether to become "the biggest of the small parties" or the "smallest of the bigger parties"...a very Dutch problem

RIP God Empress FF

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I have often wondered why the Netherlands despite not having a threshold has no "true" far-left movement - Trotskyists, anarchists or what have you. Same for parties to the right of PVV - although there are no shortage of rivals for Wilders, they seem more driven by ego rather than an ideological clash - there aren't any classic NPD style nazis either.

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The magic of PR means even if it is that is broadly popular, a significant minority can create quite a substantial bulwark in parliament (which is not a bad thing, mind).

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So, BBB is another agrarian populist party and Splinter is a pro-laicite, anti-idpol left outfit?

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the netherlands should raise the threshold to 5%

they need move the thershold up to 5% no way should a party under 1% of the vote be awared a seat

They need to raised the threshold to 5%

Invaluable contributions.