International Politics

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Well, that is how it usually ends. The VVD promised election after election to get migration under control while the numbers kept going up. The past few years we had a center-right government hamstrung by scandals and backdoor deals. What is most surprising though is that the Green and Labor parties supported most of what they did. Wilders was the opposition leader while the left wing parties aside from the Socialist Party blocked any attempt to ouster the government keeping it on life support. 

The politicians also missed the signs of earlier anti-establishment victories like the senate election victory of FvD in 2019 (followed by the quick collapse of the inexperienced party) and the BBB(farmers citizen movement) victory in the senate elections earlier this year. Rebel coalition MP and whistleblower Omtzigt set up his own center-right party(NSC) but he wasn't committed to leading. He seemed more interested in joining a left-wing government with Green-Labour leader Frans Timmermans at the helm. 

Once he came back from his EU posting everyone predicted that Timmermans would win if the voters didn't want another VVD government with the wild cards being the BBB and Omtzigt once he formed his party just 3 months before the election. No one expected Wilders to win. About 2 weeks ago the polls still had him in a distant 4th or even 5th place. His surge was very sudden in the polls and the polls predicted a 'tie' at best and some still had him in 3rd place with a small margin. No poll predicted the landslide victory.