University Professor: 'PVV a healthy correction to Dutch political system'
Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom is a healthy correction to the Dutch political system. So says Mark Bovens, a professor of public administration at the University of Utrecht, in an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The PVV appeals to a part of the electorate, that had lost its political representation in the past decades.
Bovens feels that government and politics have increasingly come to be dominated by a well educated elite that is cosmopolitan in it's outlook. Legitimate concerns of less educated citizens about European unification, immigration, and globalization are routinely brushed aside as racist and xenophobic by this elite.