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Hey everyone!

I heard from a few of my friends that even our national elections here in the Netherlands is a big news item abroad. Do you think our elections are that important, or is there just a lack of 'normal' news, besides all the natural disasters, famine and so on? Do you follow politics and if you do, what are your opinions?

I guess our elections will end in a fiasco anyway, I'll give our coalition (not sure which one it will be at the time I'm writing this) a year and then we'll be able to vote again. Is it just here that politics seem to be chaos? What's the case in your country?

Looking forward to hear your opinions!

oh well.. my CU-vote didn't change much... bye bye stufi...

Haha.. well... they want to get rid of the stufi in order to get our deficit down to 3% GDP. Which is the European norm.. if it's higher we have to pay fees to the EU. And stufi is a lot of money... it's just easy to skip it. Though I doubt it will happen so soon. I guess there will be student revolts as in 1968 in France under De Gaulle.. I hope our politicians learned from what happened in the past, although I doubt it.

VVD and PVV are just bad for our position in the EU. Our image will go bad, and even if we will leave the EU (which I doubt) it will be bad for our economy. Every citizen gets €350 a year now thanks to the EU. If we leave we will lose that, our trade will go down since we have to pay extra levies etc. So I hope some people in this country will finally listen to reason.. and won't vote PVV again in the next elections (which will be in a few months... my prediction).

Limburg only votes PVV because they think they aren't heard in The Hague... they don't even know Wilder's points.. they just want to make a statement. Besides that they think foreign people form a threat.. (while there even aren't so many over there). People are just not well informed and vote with their heart instead of their mind. (Friesland has a nationalist party too.. the FNP.. they want to leave the Netherlands.. so I guess Limburg should calm down a bit.. )

haha! Good questions!

Answer to question number one: Wilders will give anything to finally rule.. he has no concrete plans to arrive at his goals anyway. So giving those up is not a big step for him. He knows he will lose voters by his moves.. but some of the people who voted for him say they understand his reasons.. Although I doubt it. If Wilders wouldn't have given up his statements.. he wouldn't have been able to get a place in the government. That would mean that he would lose all his voters.. and a lot more credibility. He had to choose between two equal hard options. We'll wait and see..

Answer to question number two ;-): I even wonder IF they will be able to get a stable coalition.. I really doubt it. And if they succeed.. I guess it will not last until october/december.. (Prinsjesdag etc. will cause a lot more arguments etc.)