Dutch Voters Divided As Election Signals Another Test For Anti-Immigrant Populism

[Iphie]

VNL used to have 2 seats but now they lost them both, so they probably went to FvD. I guess it was VNL who first took some seats from the PVV.

Myeah, weren't those the ones who first split of from PVV after the 'fewer, fewer, fewer' remarks?

[JohnBrown1917]

Myeah, weren't those the ones who first split of from PVV after the 'fewer, fewer, fewer' remarks?

I think the VnL that split off because Wilders was not far enough to the right on the economic scale, I think? Not sure, lots its members have split off. VnL is the first one to gian seats tho.

But either way, VNL was the most right wing party on the economic side of things.

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Merkel's party is euphoric. This voting result is a clear win for the EU really.

The VVD is probably the closest party we have here to her CDU.
With the CDA and D66 probs also ending up in a coalition, its perfect for her.

[ranzino]

So all is quit on the NL front ? or could the coalition negotiations still fail utterly, resulting in a new election ?

Next stop is Turkey's referendum in April. Oh, Merkel and friends would laugh their asses off if Erdogan fails.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Merkel's party is euphoric. This voting result is a clear win for the EU really.

Yeah, it may just have prevented a snowball effect on a bad trend.

[Puupi]

Could someone give some linkylinky for live feed of the vote count and news about it? Some dutch paper or tv station?

[Arenis]

Could someone give some linkylinky for live feed of the vote count and news about it? Some dutch paper or tv station?

http://www.nu.nl/verkiezingen-2017/4...4-procent.html

It's dutch but the numbers are readable.

[Cairhiin]

Could someone give some linkylinky for live feed of the vote count and news about it? Some dutch paper or tv station?

http://nos.nl/artikel/2163332-tk17-b...uitslagen.html

[Deleted]

Democracy won in the netherlands. Wilders is a loser.

I hope this happens in france as well. The fascist front national may not be successfull.

[Shaede]

I asked how it's not racism and you go on to say something racist, again.

Racism would be allowing some in while not others. You seem to be confused. Or is every country who doesn't have completely open borders to any foreign country just racist to you? Starting to realize how dumb you sound?

[May90]

http://www.nu.nl/verkiezingen-2017/4...4-procent.html

It's dutch but the numbers are readable.

Ha-h, I was right. Rekt!

[Puupi]

http://www.nu.nl/verkiezingen-2017/4...4-procent.html

It's dutch but the numbers are readable.

http://nos.nl/artikel/2163332-tk17-b...uitslagen.html

Thanks, and no problem with them being in Dutch. It's an easy language to understand. You know one Germanic language and you know them all.

[Cairhiin]

7 (out of 388) municipalities counted. VVD won 6 of them. CDA won 1. Remember though, these are the smallest municipalities.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Could someone give some linkylinky for live feed of the vote count and news about it? Some dutch paper or tv station?

Another link: https://www.facebook.com/nos/videos/1670187636330121/

[Cairhiin]

Thanks, and no problem with them being in Dutch. It's an easy language to understand. You know one Germanic language and you know them all.

You're welcome, and yea Dutch is a pretty easy language. Bit of a mix of German and English. Also reminds of some Scandinavian languages.

[Puupi]

Just accidentally noticed that nu.nl is owned and ran by Sanoma, which is a Finnish media house. o_O Didn't know they own outlets in Netherlands, too.

[Cairhiin]

Just accidentally noticed that nu.nl is owned and ran by Sanoma, which is a Finnish media house. o_O Didn't know they own outlets in Netherlands, too.

Sanoma owns multiple dutch media sources as far as I am aware, not just nu.nl.

[Drynix]

So all is quit on the NL front ? or could the coalition negotiations still fail utterly, resulting in a new election ?

With VVD being the biggest party the way things look I highly doubt a coalition will fail. I expect it to be VVD + D66 + CDA + one other party, possibly the PvdA.
Pvv with their leader Wilders will have no place or space in the coalition it will be left at the side as per usual. Highly doubtfull we will get another election.

[Iphie]

Just accidentally noticed that nu.nl is owned and ran by Sanoma, which is a Finnish media house. o_O Didn't know they own outlets in Netherlands, too.

Nu.nl originally wasn't a Sanoma brand, but in 2001 the mothercompany got bought out by Sanoma.

[Puupi]

Did some reading and found out that Sanoma is the biggest news media corporation in the Netherlands. Maybe it explains this https://rsf.org/en/ranking

[Moratori]

Racism would be allowing some in while not others. You seem to be confused. Or is every country who doesn't have completely open borders to any foreign country just racist to you? Starting to realize how dumb you sound?

You are capable of reading, yes? Go back and reread.