Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced the resignation of his government on Friday, accepting responsibility for years of mismanagement of childcare subsidies, which wrongfully drove thousands of famili…
Dutch politics is a bit more complicated than that. If this scandal causes the current ruling neoliberal party (VVD) to lose too many votes, it is possible that PVV (the anti-islam party) manages to get a plurality of the votes but since several other big parties have often stated that they will not form a coalition with the PVV, they are unlikely to be able to build a government, giving the second-biggest party a cance to form one. Since the Netherlands has about 15 different flavours one of liberal parties, it's probably going to be another one of those.
Someone who is familiar with Dutch politics please tell me this doesn't mean the anti-islam party is going to win by default.
Dutch politics is a bit more complicated than that. If this scandal causes the current ruling neoliberal party (VVD) to lose too many votes, it is possible that PVV (the anti-islam party) manages to get a plurality of the votes but since several other big parties have often stated that they will not form a coalition with the PVV, they are unlikely to be able to build a government, giving the second-biggest party a cance to form one. Since the Netherlands has about 15 different flavours one of liberal parties, it's probably going to be another one of those.