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Post by pieter on Nov 22, 2006 14:55:07 GMT -7
The Dutch national elections of November the 22thIt seems to be that the present rightwing government coalition will have to go. On the Left the Socialist Party (SP) grew very big from nine 9% to 25%, and from the Christian side the Christian social Christian Union grew from 3 to seven seats. The centre-left Social Democrats (PvdA), the Liberal government party VVD (centre-right) and the former government coalition party D66 (left-liberals) are the big losers. The Dutch were fed up with the Market oriented government of Christian-Democrats and Liberals, and voted for a more social policy, on for left and christian subjects. Amazing was the rise from 1 seat to 8 of the anti-Muslim and rightwing Populist party for freedom of Geert Wilders, and the Party of animals, 3 seats (was 0). Analists think that there will be a Christian Social coalition of Christian-democats (CDA), Social-democrats (PvdA) and the Christian Union (Calvinist party, which attracts large numbers of Catholic votes in the traditional Christian-democratic Catholic South too). Pieter news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6170444.stmwww.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=390349&lng=1www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8143030
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Post by pieter on Nov 22, 2006 14:58:30 GMT -7
Pieters Vote
As a Free democrat I doubted for a while between the Social-democrats, GreenLeft and the Christian Union. The Christian Union is to Calvinist for me, the Social-democrats are to arrogant and opportunistic, so I voted for Green Left, a party who stands for the environment, social policy, culture, a green creative economy and Cosmopolitanism.
Pieter
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Post by constantine on Nov 23, 2006 7:10:07 GMT -7
I heard that one of the parties was Party of pedophiles, but it wasn't registered ;-)
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Post by pieter on Nov 24, 2006 16:37:31 GMT -7
Fortunately this insane or stupid party did not get any support. That was the reason that it did not even participated in the elections. No one was interested in them! Conservatives from left and right won the elections, the Left Socialist party ( www.sp.nl/ ) and the rightwing Populist Party of Freedom ( www.partijvoordevrijheid.nl/ ). The last party is against a further islamization of the Netherlands, a stop of non-Western immigration and the prohibition of building new mosques.
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Post by Jaga on Nov 24, 2006 17:12:44 GMT -7
Fortunately this insane or stupid party did not get any support. That was the reason that it did not even participated in the elections. No one was interested in them! Conservatives from left and right won the elections, the Left Socialist party ( www.sp.nl/ ) and the rightwing Populist Party of Freedom ( www.partijvoordevrijheid.nl/ ). The last party is against a further islamization of the Netherlands, a stop of non-Western immigration and the prohibition of building new mosques. Pieter, so it looks that the Green left did not win this time but I understand what is the problem in Holland right now. People are really worried. My husband stated that there is a new term in the dictionaries this year: islamofascism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamofascismwhether we agree with it or not....
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Post by pieter on Nov 28, 2006 0:16:44 GMT -7
Dutch Socialist Party makes big election gainsA political earthquake took place in the Netherlands, this week, when the Dutch Socialist Party (SP) made the biggest gains in the 22 November general elections, coming third place with 26 seats. With 1,624,349 votes, the SP won 6.3%. The turnout was high, at 80.1%. This is a big jump from the 2003 elections, when the SP got 608,490 votes. The loss of support for the main governing and opposition parties shows the electorate rejected years of savage social cuts and neo-liberal policies. The polls, particularly the big jump in SP support, also revealed sharp political polarisation in society, which shook the ruling establishment and mainstream media. Niall Mulholland, Comittee for a Workers' International/CWI (www.socialistworld.net) For a bold socialist programme – No to a coalition with rightwing parties!Dutch supporters of the CWI, ‘Offensief’, who are part of the SP, welcomed the electoral breakthrough for the SP, and call for the party to build on the success by developing fighting, socialist policies. The ruling Christian Democrats (CDA) won the largest share of the votes in the election but face a difficult task forming a new coalition government. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende won 41 seats in the 150-strong parliament. The current coalition partners, the Liberals (VVD) won 22 seats, meaning the CDA need to include other parties to reach a working majority. The Labour Party (PvdA) lost many votes, including a chunk that went to the SP. Its share fell from 42 to 32 seats. The Green Left party got seven, down by one. The election saw a polarisation amongst the electorate, on broad left and right lines, indicating a search by many voters for an alternative to years of right wing, cuts-making coalition governments. The two parties of the outgoing right wing coalition, the CDA and the VVD, lost between them nine seats and a majority to continue in power. As an indication of the radicalisation of a big section of the population, the ‘Party for Animals’ became the first animal rights party to win seats in a parliament in Europe. www.offensief.demon.nl/archives/2006/11/entry_88.html
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Post by pieter on Nov 28, 2006 0:22:23 GMT -7
the ‘Party for Animals’: www.partijvoordedieren.nl/They won seats because a lot of well know Dutch personalities were on their list of candidates, writers, an actress and a comedian.
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