The Great Dutch Realignment - Hungarian Conservative

The Great Dutch Realignment - Hungarian Conservative

As morning broke on 30 October, the Dutch woke up to a radically changed, and even more convoluted, parliament.  The Party for Freedom of veteran right-winger Geert Wilders, the surprise winner in the previous elections and driving force behind Dick Schoof’s right-leaning coalition, had suffered major losses. Of the other parties in the coalition, only the liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), of former Prime Minister (and pres…