clogs and tulips
The Netherlands are voting for a new government tomorrow. That should be about as exciting as watching paint dry!
Seriously though, I don't understand why it took so long... the cabinet had fallen somewhere in summer or autumn last year already and only now are there re-elections. Ah well. Last elections were scary with the Pim Fortuyn phenomenon. Now the Dutch seem to have noticed that his "followers" are a bunch of right-wing amateurs and they're predicted to drop from 29 seats to 6. Good riddance.
Apart from that the Dutch seem to be heading to a christian/conservative-social/progressive coalition. Never really saw the point of that... combine conservative and progressive and what do you get? Nothing. A complete standstill. Ah well. Better than the right-wing government they had I suppose....
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The Netherlands are voting for a new government tomorrow. That should be about as exciting as watching paint dry!
Seriously though, I don't understand why it took so long... the cabinet had fallen somewhere in summer or autumn last year already and only now are there re-elections. Ah well. Last elections were scary with the Pim Fortuyn phenomenon. Now the Dutch seem to have noticed that his "followers" are a bunch of right-wing amateurs and they're predicted to drop from 29 seats to 6. Good riddance.
Apart from that the Dutch seem to be heading to a christian/conservative-social/progressive coalition. Never really saw the point of that... combine conservative and progressive and what do you get? Nothing. A complete standstill. Ah well. Better than the right-wing government they had I suppose....
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