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With the motion now adopted, the Dutch government must formally respond and decide whether to implement the request.
And they won't.
Wilders is a right wing nut job whose popularity is decreasing rapidly. His party was now elected twice into the government and in both cases they blew up the coalition, causing new elections.
The sentiment regarding his party is now that they are unable to govern and just cause chaos. This is becoming clear even among his followers.
Before the elections they promise the impossible. When they are in the opposition it's easy to maintain that the ruling parties are messing stuff up, but now that they were actually part of the government they have shown twice now that they are unable to deliver any of their fantasy solutions and that they can't govern.
Thanks for the insight; we currently have a very similar situation in Finland. The current government including far-right populists, conservatives and neoliberals is just fucked up both in discussions and actions, both internally and externally so to speak.
In the last decade or so people often said "just let them govern once to show the people how bad they are at it". I always thought it's a playing with fire scenario, but so far it seems to work out.
I’d like it to be true that his followers have lost faith in him, but it doesn’t seem like it to me. Of recent polls, only Maurice de Hond puts the PVV at a significant loss.
Wilders has been trying to frame all issues with his cabinet as having been the result of unwillingness by the other coalition parties in following through with his (clearly illegal and unconstitutional) demands, especially NSC. It remains to be seen if he was successful - there’s still quite some time to go till late October - but at the moment it seems like he has. If you go to public forums with lots of PVVers, you hear them repeat this talking point quite fervently.
I’m also not confident that the new VVD-supported cordon sanitaire will actually hold after the elections, though at least the VVD is looking to lose quite a bit of their seats. This motion was supported by the so-called ‘liberal’ VVD themselves, anyway.