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“We’re going to party tonight.” That was the incongruous reaction of Dilan Yesilgöz to leading the VVD to its worst election result in 54 years. Johan Cruyff was playing for Ajax when the right-wing liberal party last took less than 14.2% of the vote, which is where it landed last month. Since Yesilgöz succeeded Mark […]
Two competing theories emerged from the general election in the Netherlands just over a week ago, in which the progressive-liberal D66 became the most popular party for the first time. The first, prevalent in the international media, is that the election was a triumph for the centre, for constructive politics and the can-do attitude of […]
In an election campaign where parties’ fortunes have peaked and dipped like a ship in a storm, the poll ratings for GroenLinks-PvdA have been as solid as a granite rock. And like a granite rock, all the other sailors have gone to great lengths to avoid it. Frans Timmermans’ party briefly looked as if it […]
Last weekend Dutch election watchers were treated to an unconventional political debate between four parties who may well end up on the same side after the general election on October 29. On current polling, the Christian Democrats (CDA), the left-wing Green-Labour alliance (GL-PvdA) and the two liberal parties VVD and D66 are the only combination […]
The word that kept coming up in last week’s debate on the riots in The Hague was veenbrand – a peat fire. Violent clashes outside council offices and asylum seekers’ centres are now a daily occurrence: a slow-burning blaze that is choking the political climate. In the last week far-right extremists have hurled fireworks at […]
