Politics and Elections in the Netherlands: Rutte III era

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except for a few posters by the PvdA youth)

All members under sixty?

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What are the latest projections?

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What are the latest projections?

VVD 35
D66 26
PVV 18
CDA 14
PVDA 9
GL 8
SP 8
FVD 8
PVDD 5
CU 4
JA21 4
VOLT 3
SGP 3
DENK 2
50PLUS 1
BIJ1 1
BBB 1

https://www.verkiezingensite.nl/

Quite the landslide for the government. Undeserved, but it isn't as if anyone proposed an alternative.

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One thing that these elections demonstrate is that when the political Left is seen to be irrelevant many of its potential voters (even ones who normally seem solid) will not see the point in voting for it. As, actually, voting that way is a pragmatic act for most that do so. The plain fact is that the number of people interested in voting for left-wing testimonial parties (even when they are such by default rather than design) in most 'Western' countries is now quite small. If party loyalties even ran that deep they do not now.

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FIX. YOUR. TABLE. BREAKING. POST.

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Is there any reason why PvdA, SP, and GL shouldn't all be shuttered and the Dutch left just told to start over with new organisations?

It does seem like the obviously correct move by this point.

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It's the same logic as here and once it reaches the same level of absurd intensity will doubtless result in similarly bad outcomes. You end up with local government very detached and remote and, as a result, inherently unpopular - especially as this all tends to go hand-in-hand with big financial squeezes of the sort that make positive action from local government impossible.