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Who is Geert Wilders, the unpleasant surprise victor of the Dutch vote-casting?

.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders's anti-immigrant Group for Freedom (PVV) completed initially in the Dutch overall political election, gaining 37 of the 150 chairs in assemblage, or even 23.6% of the ballot. His success was a massive unpleasant surprise. Yet the named beneficiary of this particular quick count on the challenging right is no startup. The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having entered in 1998 as a participant of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He gave up that event in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities in the direction of Islam, and founded the PVV in 2006. He possesses regularly possessed a solid foundation of voter help, but has actually spent his parliamentary profession usually on the subsidiaries, locked out of influence by various other events' refusal to deal with him. Now there is a likelihood that this will transform.