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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't Rutte hard right enough, you guys are going further to the right? ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rutte's centre right party took a major hit last election, the left parties had their own struggles, and the racist "freedom party" almost doubled in size (growing even bigger than Rutte's party the term before)...

With a coalition government it isn't quite the all-or-nothing situation here like in the US and UK, but it's still sad to see.

Election results, in case you're curious. It shows both the 2021 and '23 results.

  • PVV: racist freedom party
  • VVD: Rutte's former party
  • D66: Democrats
  • GL/PvdA: new Left/labour union party
  • NSC: offshoot of the Christian democrat party (CDA)
  • BBB: radicalised farmer's party

(Some of the above may have been editorialized)