Meet Geert Wilders, the Dutch Trump
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The victory of Geert Wilders in Holland’s recent election has raised the spectre of a European Donald Trump. Now scrabbling to put together a coalition government, what does the return of an anti-Islamist, hard-right politician mean for The Netherlands, and for Europe more widely?
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| 0:48.0 | Players must be 18 or over. When the Netherlands held an election recently, nobody expected that the results would cause a political earthquake. |
| 1:10.0 | A lot of people, if you would have asked them a year ago would call you mad and it |
| 1:16.4 | happened today so I'm very proud. The far-right populist Gert Wilders and his Freedom Party won more seats than any other party in the Dutch elections. |
| 1:28.0 | The biggest threats to our survival today and the threats to our freedom are the European Union mass |
| 1:36.8 | immigration and this terrible Islamic ideology of submission and violence. |
| 1:45.0 | The anti-Islam, anti-immigration, anti-EU politician is now desperately trying to form a government. |
| 1:54.0 | His victory and his divisive brand of politics |
| 1:58.0 | is still causing tremors in the Netherlands |
| 2:01.0 | and across Europe. |
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