Waving the flag of nationalism, Geert Wilders promises to return the
Netherlands to the Dutch, who would otherwise be kidnapped by the
Brussels bureaucracy and the establishment.
The leader of the Freedom Party, who has been in parliament for
nearly 20 years, has long been a thorn in the side of what he calls the
political “elite”.
Wilders campaigned for the “no” vote during the Netherlands
referendum, on the draft European Constitution in 2005. He creates his
party, the PVV, a year later. Its ideological pillars are Euroscepticism, anti-immigration and especially anti-Islamism.
He was shocked by the assassination in 2002 of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, of whom Wilders was the direct political heir, and two years later by the murder of Theo van Gogh a director whose film attacked Islam.
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Source: euronews.
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