General Politics Discussion

[plam]

Well, the Netherlands has given the most seats to a far-right explicitly anti-immigrant party in it's election yesterday.

So that's fun.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/far-rig...5-support/

Given the country has a modern well functioning representative democracy this doesn't mean all that much...the party has 25% of the seats and will need a broad coalition to even form a government. Wilders might be able to form it, the centre-right party has gone back and forth on whether they would work with the far-right party or not, so we'll see. Last time it took 9 months to form a government. But even if Wilders does form a government, he will only be a part of the coalition.

Still, a worrying direction.

People in NZ complained about the 20 days it took here...