The United States, Britain, France and Germany on Thursday all backed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the next secretary general of NATO, putting him in a strong…
Rutte’s centre right party took a major hit last election, the left parties had their own struggles, and the racist “freedom party” almost doubled in size (growing even bigger than Rutte’s party the term before)…
With a coalition government it isn’t quite the all-or-nothing situation here like in the US and UK, but it’s still sad to see.
Election results, in case you’re curious. It shows both the 2021 and '23 results.
PVV: racist freedom party
VVD: Rutte’s former party
D66: Democrats
GL/PvdA: new Left/labour union party
NSC: offshoot of the Christian democrat party (CDA)
Rutte’s centre right party took a major hit last election, the left parties had their own struggles, and the racist “freedom party” almost doubled in size (growing even bigger than Rutte’s party the term before)…
With a coalition government it isn’t quite the all-or-nothing situation here like in the US and UK, but it’s still sad to see.
Election results, in case you’re curious. It shows both the 2021 and '23 results.
(Some of the above may have been editorialized)