I'm actually not at all surprised by this if true.

Also pre-Trump.

And one that would probably be undone if there was another vote. Sound familiar?

We elected a corrupt, racist and mentally unstable game show host to the most powerful position in the world. Our ability to squawk at the Europeans about politics is in the penalty box for many many moons to come.

But there was also Berlusconi. Pre Trump- Pre Brexit.

If Le Pen's rise to power is thwarted we can call it a trend and safely say that the Europeans have gazed upon the Trump shit show and have taken a cue from our mistakes. This is a good start.

He is favored to be in the run off and the last poll had him at 61 to her 39 in the second round. He is a socially liberal centrist.

They should be skeert of Geert.

This lists the number of seats belonging to each party according to exit polls:
- VVD: 31
- CDA: 19
- D66: 19
- PVV: 19
- GroenLinks: 16
- SP: 14
- PvdA: 9
- CU: 6
- PvdD: 5
- 50Plus: 4
- Denk: 3
- SGP: 3
- FvD: 2

VVD is current PM's party
PVV is the Wilders party

They want a coalition of at least 76 seats for an absolute majority, so something like VVD/CDA/D66/(GroenLinks or PvdA) might be the most likely option? Not an expert on Dutch politics here.

The following table details the party representation in the Dutch parliament. The political leaders mentioned are not necessarily also leader of the parliamentary parties in the House of Representatives.

Parties Political Leader Votes (2012) HoR seats Senate seats
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) Mark Rutte 2,504,948 41 13
Labour Party (PvdA) Lodewijk Asscher 2,340,750 38 8
Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders 950,263 15 9
Socialist Party (SP) Emile Roemer 909,853 15 9
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) Sybrand van Haersma Buma 801,620 13 12
Democrats 66 (D66) Alexander Pechtold 757,091 12 10
ChristianUnion (CU) Gert-Jan Segers 294,586 5 3
GreenLeft (GL) Jesse Klaver 219,896 4 4
Political Reformed Party (SGP) Kees van der Staaij 196,780 3 2
Party for Animals (PvdD) Marianne Thieme 182,162 2 2
50PLUS (50+) Jan Nagel 177,631 2 2
Independent Senate Faction (OSF) Henk ten Hoeve* did not compete 0 1
Total (includes Others and Blank/Invalid; turnout 74,57%) 9.462.223 150 75

Thanks. Ever since Trump was elected, our alt right party (AfD) has been going down in polls.

Something needs to change with the EU though, so that more people actually have a reason to love it.

backers of nefarious origins (very probably another Putin puppet). I really hope that the Trumpette Marine Le Pen in France goes down next as anything that shows that the so-called Trump (bowel) "movement" has hit a wall...and not a border wall...is a good thing. People are seeing through this shit.

Hopefully the more sensible in the world have wised up.

to the train wreck that is trump....

big time...

and finally there's an election that Russia and their Deplorable lackeys couldn't fuck with

And the russians are going big against Merkel...

paper ballots

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/mar/15/dutch-election-voters-go-to-the-polls-in-the-netherlands-live

Now if we could only exit our own cheeto.

They never had more than about 15-20% support. The question was whether the electorate was so divided among the 10 major Parties that they "won" by getting more seats than the others. Even then, they would never have controlled the Government, because no other Party would form a coalition with them. At most, they were "sending a message".

This is just like Western Australia that just voted out the liberal party (they are our version of conservatives) because they teamed up with One Nation (Trump nation), election went to the labor party in an upheaval... WA is the most conservative (our version of conservatives) that there is in AU. Hopefully this becomes the new global norm.