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Considered for some 20 years as the undisputed leader of the right of the Dutch right, Mr. Geert Wilders faces a putsch mixed with a split within his Party for Freedom (PVV). Seven of his twenty-six deputies announced on Tuesday 20 January that they had founded their own parliamentary group. Their leader, Mr. Gidi Markuszower, a long-time man of trust — and even a friend — of Mr. Wilders, justified the revolt by invoking the hubris of the leader…
‘A Black Day for the PVV’ as 7 MPs Leave the Party
In a shocking turn of events, the largest rightwing party in the Netherlands, the Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, has been dealt another major blow. After a disappointing election result in which the party lost 11 seats, seven out of the remaining 26 members of parliament announced on Wednesday that they are breaking with the PVV. The MPs will form a new parliamentary group under the name Group Markuszower, named after Gidi …
With the split of seven members of parliament from the PVV and the formation of the Markuszower Group, the House of Representatives has gained a sixteenth parliamentary group. At first glance, this seems to make politics even more complex. But other party leaders also see advantages. On the one hand, there's another group that submits parliamentary questions, requests debates, and submits motions. This group, too, gets its own speaking time for …
At one stroke Geert Wilder's Islamic-critical PVV loses about a quarter of its faction in the Dutch House of Commons. The splitters accuse him of numerous strategy mistakes. This post "A black day" Geert Wilder's PVV faction breaks up after dispute was published on Junge Freiheit.
Brabant PVV MPs Maikel Boon and Rachel van Meetelen remain loyal to Geert Wilders. On Tuesday, seven PVV members left the House of Representatives out of dissatisfaction with Wilders's policy and leadership. The Brabant MPs were not part of that group. The now-ex-PVV members demanded a change of course in a letter to Wilders. The PVV should become a democratic party with members and an investigation into the election defeat. Furthermore, someone…
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