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Dutch farmers’ party secures landslide victory

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Elderberry:
UnHerd by Senay Boztas 3/16/2023

The BBB's huge election win is a direct challenge to Mark Rutte's coalition

With the highest turnout in 30 years, Dutch voters gave an extraordinary signal to their four-party Government on Wednesday: the Farmer Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB) is set to come first in regional elections, which decide the make-up of the Dutch Senate.

In a long voting day, with locations from repurposed drive-through testing centres to ancient churches, an estimated 61% of Dutch people turned out. The result was astonishing, even though the party has been creeping up the polls, feeding on anti-establishment feeling after unpopular Covid lockdowns.

Some analysts saw the election as a fight between two ‘moods’ in the Netherlands: a mood of (Right-wing) discontent, echoed also across other countries, versus the traditional consensus-driven Dutch mood. With 18 parties in parliament, politicians have typically found a way to muddle along, but this election was different thanks to the thorny issue of nitrogen compound pollution, which is tying the country in knots before a bill has even passed through parliament.

More: https://unherd.com/thepost/dutch-farmers-party-secures-landslide-victory/

LMAO:
Amazing how people vote if they're told to starve by their leaders. Who would have thought?

DefiantMassRINO:
Mass starvation to save Mother Gaia is not a winning strategy.  Polar Bears can't vote.

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