Anti-Immigration Dutch Politician Becomes Netherlands’ Next Prime Minister
Dubbed a “far-right” extremist by media outlets across the West, anti-immigration Dutch politician Geert Wilders has won the Netherlands’ vote for prime minister.
Wilders’ fiery rhetoric surrounding mass migration and his party’s controversial stance on Islamic ideals infiltrating Western culture has earned him the ire of the left, which views radical immigration policies as “progressive.”
The Associated Press reported, “In his victory speech, Wilders said he wants to end what he called the ‘asylum tsunami,'” referring to the hordes of immigrants who have flocked to the country seeking asylum. “The people must get their nation back,” Wilders insisted in his speech. There are an estimated 23,000 and 58,000 illegal immigrants currently residing in the Netherlands, which has a population of just over 17 million. Britannica explains, “At the beginning of the 21st century, Dutch birth and death rates were both among the world’s lowest, resulting in a somewhat older society, with most population growth arising from immigration.”
Charlie Kirk, TPUSA CEO and founder shared on X, “The tide is turning against open-borders globalism everywhere,” following Wilders’ election win.
Newly elected Prime Minister Wilders has even floated the idea of withdrawing the nation from the European Union (EU), as much of immigration and environmental falls under the multinational partnership.
Jeremy Bierbach, an immigration lawyer in Amsterdam, told Dutch News, “There’s basically nothing [Wilders] can do that won’t get shot down by the [EU] courts.”
Wilders has also spoken out against the left’s radical climate agenda, which calls for massive overhauls of electric infrastructure and means of fueling a modern society, and troublingly, government oversight of agricultural processes. In 2022, climate-conscious farming policies pushed by World Economic Forum-backed former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, prompted a mass uprising of farmers who protested the environmental laws for weeks.
TPUSA previously reported, “Farmers were told to implement an approximately 30% reduction in emissions by 2030 or face the possibility of having their farms forcibly shut down. The pollutants the government is concerned with, nitrogen oxide and ammonia, are predominantly created by livestock. The reduction would mean the end of countless family farms, and many worry that this is the first step towards government-controlled food supply.”
Farmers protesting the policy set hay ablaze on roadways, blocked highways using tractors and other farm equipment and even poured manure on government buildings. The protests prompted the then-Dutch Minister of Agriculture to resign, stating that he was not the right person for the job.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a Dutch political commentator, told her followers on X that Wilders is “100% against the expropriation of our farmers and has stood up for them all along.”
Despite the media’s portrayal of Wilders’ victory, he has vowed to be a prime minister “for all” in the Netherlands, and that his government would act fully in line with the nation’s constitution.
