Some more details:

  • https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/01/dutch-government-collapses-in-fall-out-from-child-benefit-scandal/
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55674146
  • Galli [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Someone who is familiar with Dutch politics please tell me this doesn't mean the anti-islam party is going to win by default.

    • Engineeredengine [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      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.