Wilders triumphs

Holland - long seen as a liberal, pot-smoking hippie hang-out - seems keen to defend the culture that’s made it so free, to judge from this week’s election:

With 88 per cent of the votes counted, published partial results showed the Liberals with 31 and Labour on 30.

But the real victory went to Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), which demands an end to immigration from Muslim countries and a ban on new mosques. The PVV took its number of seats from nine in the last parliament to 24, and could hope to enter a coalition government…

“The impossible has happened,” Wilders told a televised party gathering. “We are the biggest winner today. The Netherlands chose more security, less crime, less immigration and less Islam.” ...

Mr Balkenende conceded defeat for his Christian Democrats when voters turned against the party, nearly halving its seats from 41 to 21.



Source: HeraldSun.com.au