Geert Wilders may have blown his chances in the European elections,
writes Robin Pascoe in the Dutch News.NL following his racist statements
last night in the Hague.
Even though Wilders party the
PVV fielded candidates only in The Hague and the city of Almere,
Wilders must have hoped it was going to be his night in the Hague, just
like in 2010.
The party was pretty well assured of
remaining the biggest in the polder city of Almere and looked set to
dominate in fhe Hague as well.
It did not work out for Wilders as he had hoped.
Support
for the PVV fell in both places - almost one percentage point in Almere
and 2.6 percentage points in The Hague. Only Government coalition
partners Labour and the VVD did worse in the city of peace and justice.
Before
the results became known, however, Wilders was prepared to triumph. He
entered the party meeting in The Hague - once again - as he called it,
"the eye of the Tiger", from the theme of the movie Rocky. He wanted to
be the classic underdog looking to deliver a knock-out blow to the
political establishment in The Hague.
He spoke of what a
great night it was - even though the results that interested him were
not yet out - and then came the chanting. 'Do you want more or fewer
Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands?,’ Wilders asked the
crowd. They chanted ‘fewer, fewer, fewer’. 'We're going to organize it,'
Wilders said with a faint smile.
"It ain't going to happen - you racist A-hole", said a political opponent. .
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