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One in four Dutch voters has lost faith in all political parties, survey finds (nltimes.nl)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This distrust is especially strong among those who voted for Nieuw Sociaal Contract (NSC), with 32 percent expressing no trust, as well as voters for BBB (28 percent) and PVV (26 percent).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Social_Contract

In foreign policy, NSC aspires to continue intensive cooperation within Europe. The idea is that by working together, the Netherlands gets a better grip on cross-border problems such as migration, CO2 emissions and the power of big tech. Nevertheless, NSC also sees the need to strengthen the democratic legitimacy of European legislation and calls for the European Union to be more transparent and accountable to European citizens. According to its party manifesto, European decision-making must become more transparent and be more focused on upholding the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. Ultimately, Omtzigt has vowed for a firm stance from the Netherlands in Europe, without creeping transfers of budgets and powers eroding national sovereignty and democratic control, and argues that the Netherlands should protect its interests on the European stage. The party also calls for no more Dutch participation in Eurozone bailouts, less EU influence on Dutch taxation policies and for the Netherlands to opt-out of EU agreements it deems contradictory to Dutch interests. NSC supports Dutch NATO membership and argues for the Netherlands to meet the standard of at least 2% of GDP on defense.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom

PVV's main issues are migration and critique of Islam. The PVV has proposed banning the Quran and shutting down all mosques in the Netherlands.[7] The party is Eurosceptic[8][9] and favoured withdrawal from the EU until 2024.[10]

So I take it that this is something of a "I voted for either less or no EU and a Netherlands for the Dutch and yet the government hasn't done any of that!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the breakdown. What does BBB stand for, politically?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! So you have not one but two clearly right-wing populist parties? Plus NSC which seems to be a more "salon" version?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Pfff as if. We also have FvD (forum for democracy), and JA21 which split off from FvD because FvD started saying the quiet part out loud

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

NSC had a guy who was tired of lobbying, tired of opacity of government and tired of political games. He is a dude who always had thorough knowledge of dossiers, who went the smart route.

But the PVV are populist blowhards who rely on bashing refugees (not immigrants, the Netherlands relies on immigrants too much) and their skewed statements about the economical costs resonated with voters who give up reading any document after a word with more than two syllables.

So the NSC had to basically water down everything the PVV wanted to do and had no time for any of their own points. Plus you had the VVD and the BBB in there, who are respectively for rich folks and farmers.

This cabinet was always doomed to fail and if the Dutch can't meet somewhere in the middle and keep splitting the vote between far right and far left, this will keep happening until America invades and we become an overseas colony.