After winning the elections in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders is strugging big time to make a government

by IsthisSCOTECA

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  1. typo by me: i meant struggling

    it seems that someone caught wind of his nexit plans and everyone’s now gone AFK

  2. Not only Geert Wilders, the others are also uh… uncomfortable, now that their election promises turn out to be based on hot air (like: “that €17B deficit to pay for my promises?, who cares.”)

  3. Every last member of every other Dutch political party should be ashamed of themselves for undermining Wilders and the PVV. And of course for spitting in the face of the will of the Dutch voters. They undermined The Netherlands and the Dutch people for decades at this point; now they are undermining the people trying to fix what they broke.

    They ought to be considered traitors against their homeland!

  7. I feel that the term “winning the election” is stretched here quite a bit. You don’t “win” an election if your party gets the largest share (relative to the others), but if you are getting enough seats to form a government.

    Obviously, Mr. Wilders didn’t get an outright majority, and also does not find enough coalition partners. So by any means, he did not “win”.

  9. A question to the dutch here: How likely is it that they Wilders will be sucessfull in forming a coalition.

  10. This is how it works in a proper democracy. You have extreme views? You can still win the elections. But now you need to negotiate and tone it down.

    None of that “I won so the other half of you will suffer my wrath”

  11. This always happens tho…it’s not just this parties issue.

  12. He opposed everything in the last 15 years and insulted everybody along the way.
    Made many promises without a reality check.
    Refused to do a calculation on how to pay for all his air castles.
    What a surprise nothing good can come from this.

  14. When the elections results were released I told my dad and bet him 5 euros we wouldn’t have a government formed in the calendar year 2023. Not sure if we should extend the bet for 2024 as well ahaha

  15. Is anyone surprised? Even if an agreement for a coalition government everyone knows it will be fragile and will fall apart within two years.

  16. Wilders didn’t “win” the election, he simply was leader of the party with the most votes. Maybe in the USA, that’s a “win”, but we have a better functioning democracy in the Netherlands.

    Wilder’s party still doesn’t have nearly enough to form a majority, and so he has to compromise with other parties and form a coalition that represents a majority. If he can’t, the other parties could form a coalition that represents a majority and choose the prime minister from amongst themselves.

  17. He went around insulting the other politicians and parties for over a decade, refuses to have his budget evaluated by the national financial institution and doesn’t care about rules of governance. So other parties are hesitant to work with him, demand public apologies and demand he sticks to the constitution and rules of governance, because nobody wants to give him a chance or break without massive concessions and binding commitments.

    It also doesn’t help that when he got the chance to be a supporting party in a government, he made it collapse in less than a year, so he’s not consizered reliable.

  18. Election November 2023 – 4 months later and still no legislative agenda or government.

    I guess proportional representation has democratic defects too.

  19. That’s the big disadvantage of being a populist. It’s very easy to shit on the system and win votes that way. It’s a bit harder to form a government with the parties you’ve spent the past five years shitting on. Turns out they don’t like you.

    It’s the same in my country. Our populist parties are slowly losing their popularity because of the simple fact that they cannot form a government and fulfill their promises. Turns out the other parties are holding a grudge. Who knew?

  20. The Dutch Trump is a bad negotiator?

    Surprise surprise

  26. And that’s why Russia is supporting these populist parties. Imagine people still being stupid enough to lap it up.

  27. I think the problem is there is a lot of ”politicians” that only want money and live in debauchery using being a ”politician” as an excuse to be a criminal just as mafia guys had genuine bussiness as fronts, and fuck me sideway at least in Spain the ”left” usually are the worst criminals.

    Then there are people that vote for criminals because they want a little slice of that.

    And then we have all the corporations, CEO’s and shareholders with so much money they can influence a lot of things that they should not because fuck everybody else they only want the money to keep coming too and fulfill their wants for power using any situation to fuck everybody else but them.

    I dare say we need a purging and developing countries / non civilized countries to shit on us hard to make us remember that idiocy doesnt keep nor upgrade living standards.

  29. That’s what you get for voting with your seedy underbelly, instead of with your brain: a guy whose plans are irrational, illegal, unreasonable, too expensive, immoral, or plain racist. Or all of the above.

    He attracts a lot of ‘free beer’ voters.

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