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now votes in the general election in the Netherlands are still being counted but it seems that the veteran anti-islam politician Garrett viers has led his pvv party to the largest share of the vote pvv which translates into English as freedom is said to take around 35 of the 150 seats that won't be enough to govern alone and several other parties have said they won't enter a coalition with the farri right Mr builders he says the people want him to be prime minister the voters have spoken the voters have determined that the pvv will become the largest Party by far it would be very undemocratic and so I assume that it will not happen that voters will be sidelined voters wouldn't accept that either they'd find it terrible I think we need to see where the common ground is and then we need to do business with each other because we have to help the Netherlands move forwards the hope of so many people is that things must change in the Netherlands that the influx of Asylum Seekers will be limited that ordinary Dutch people will have more money in their pockets again that homes will go back to the Dutch that the Dutch will be put in the first place again well we can go live now to our correspondent Anna holligan in the ha and Anna let's just take a step back and take stock of this moment just how significant is this result for the Netherlands seismic and there's no doubt the Tremors will be felt in Brussels this morning this result is a headache if he actually manages to go ahead and become Prime Minister to convince enough parties to work with him in Coalition it will be an absolute nightmare for the European Union uh this is the prime minister's office just behind me here in the Dutch Parliament the big question is who will be occupying it in a few months time that's as long as it could take in order to negotiate create a new government um you heard GE VES there talk about some of the issues that have really dominated this campaign so for example migration but talked about in pragmatic rather than inflammatory terms the cost of living crisis a new term ban Zer High the security of existence the shortage of affordable homes and actually uh during the last few days his party surged in the polls and if you are not familiar with gear fers he's a radical politician he's been in Parliament for around 25 years he's anti-islam anti-immigration but we've already had a kind of indication that he may be prepared to compromise in order to convince enough parties to go into Coalition with him and you mentioned 35 seats there we' we've just had an update it's looking as though he has managed to secure 37 seats in Parliament about 2.3 million votes that to put it in context is more than the the vvd the conservative liberal party of Mark R secured in the last two elections so uh to say seismic is perhaps even an under statement here yes Anna and you know a big challenge for the other parties in the Netherlands because as you mentioned there they've shunned uh Mr Builders over the years over the decades they now have to decide whether to support him in forming a government um because he does have the popular vote it seems exactly as you say Katherine so that will be the real challenge now because as gear vilder said last night he can no longer be isolated he can no longer be ignored and if the other mainstream parties do that they will once again be accused of ignoring the very disenfranchised marginalized people who voted for him in the first place there's been a huge crisis of trust in Dutch politics he has promised to restore that and what's really telling is that all of the Coalition parties lost votes this is a huge punishment for the Coalition whereas the the populist parties they Ser so not just Garett vilder pvv Freedom Party but also a newly formed new social contract party led by Peter omik uh he managed to secure it looks like around 20 seats uh and then on the other side of the political Spectrum reflecting a polarized Society uh we have the green left labor Alliance led by France Timberman who gave up a European Commission job to come back and Lead this block has also per form well to explain what happens next if GE Builders is unsuccessful in forming a new Coalition then the responsibility will fall to the next biggest party which is looking like the green left labor Alliance thank you very much our correspondent in the ha there and a Holan

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Published: Thu Nov 23 2023