Parliamentary Elections in the Netherlands
The Netherlands will hold parliamentary elections on October 29. The government of Prime Minister Dick Schoof lost its majority in early June after the far-right PVV, led by Geert Wilders, left the coalition.
In the run-up to the elections, the contrast between major political events in the Netherlands is stark. On September 20, fascists rioted in The Hague after an anti-immigration rally, while on October 5, a quarter of a million people marched in Amsterdam to show solidarity with Palestine.
- Fascists in The Hague intimidated people of color and attacked the office of the social-liberal D66 party with stones.
- Nazi salutes were displayed alongside orange-white-blue flags associated with the Dutch National-Socialist Movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Some protesters carried flags of the colonial East India Company, the VOC, highlighting the connections between fascism and colonialism.
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Author's summary: Elections in the Netherlands amid rising far-right tensions.
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