12-02-2023, 11:44 PM
(12-02-2023, 08:38 PM)Potato wrote: There's only one outcome to new elections. Wilders increases his vote.
New post-election poll indeed shows that would happen.
Surprisingly enough those votes don't come from other anti-establishment fringe parties like Ja21, FVD or even SP but mostly from angry liberal conservatives (VVD).
They would be decimated keeping just 16 seats while Wilders increases his share to 42 seats and his ally BBB to 10 seats.
With that said, the media would know who to focus on in their attacks. This election was strange with the main establishment candidates Timmermans(labour/greens) and Yesilgoz(conservatives) being pushed by ads and the media for weeks but not resonating with the public at all. The farmers party that won the senate elections earlier this year losing support and the expected winner Omtzigt very insecure and indecisive about being Prime Minister and overall being too technical and abstract.
Wilders turned the whole thing upside down with a few TV appearances and a couple of debates days before the vote, staying calm and speaking clearly while Timmermans and Yesilgoz were constantly yelling at eachother and Omtzigt was a nervous wreck who looked like he needed to catch up a year of sleep.