At elections in 2010, the PVV, which had been founded only five years earlier, used an anti-Islam platform to become the third-largest Dutch party.
The Christian Democrats are again the most popular Dutch party.
In the Netherlands, a Turkish-born Islamist, Haci Karacaer, tried to build bridges with the leftists (and gay-rights advocates) of the Dutch Labour party, only to be ostracised by fellow Muslims.
Rather than modernising, as the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) has done, the SP has moved to the heartland of social democracy abandoned by the PvdA, opposing rail and energy privatisation and attacking bankers as the cause of the financial crisis.
"For years and years we have had problems in the Netherlands with organ donations and especially kidney donations, " agreed Alexander Pechtold of D-66, the Dutch social liberal party.
Since 2004 he has gone from an underdog one-man-party to leading the 3rd-largest party in the Dutch parliament and an indispensable partner in the governing coalition of the Netherlands today.
Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Freedom Party.
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Although no party straddles the divide between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, the new coalition will include socialists and liberals as well as Christian Democrats.
It was a wonderful and strange little Christmas party, with us speaking no Dutch and the nuns speaking no English, except for the tiny bit Mother Superior knew.
Mr Clegg is a free-market liberal who would fit happily into the liberal traditions of Dutch politics: whereas the left of his party still looks to the state to deliver improvements, Mr Clegg is among those who suspect that a top-down state is a wasteful provider of services, let alone social change.
In the Netherlands, Klau said the impact of Dutch politician Geert Wilders' decision to withdraw his Freedom Party's support for the government, triggering its collapse, would have only a temporary destabilizing effect.
In the Netherlands, Klau said the impact of Dutch politician Geert Wilders' decision to withdraw his Freedom Party's support for the government, triggering its collapse, will have only a temporary destabilizing effect.
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the head of the Netherland's Freedom Party, is one of Israel's greatest supporters in Europe.
Geert Wilders, Member of Parliament of the Netherlands and chairman of the Freedom Party, goes on trial Wednesday in the land of the Dutch.
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The Dutch coalition deal was copied from Denmark, where the Danish People's Party has backed a minority government since 2001.
If the Dutch follow the Finns in voting in large numbers for an anti-euro party, that would either increase resistance among creditor countries to using the bail-out funds, or mean even tougher conditions for debtor countries.
But Dutch foundations are very loosely regulated and are subject to little or no third-party oversight.
Mr. Fritsen says he doesn't support the anti-Islamic views of the Freedom Party, but he does support its call to return to the guilder, the Dutch national currency that the euro replaced.
The Freedom Party would gain three more seats if an election were held now, a survey by Dutch polling firm Synovate three weeks ago suggested.
An ardent campaigner for the rights of Muslim women, Ms Hirsi Ali started her political career as a Dutch social-democrat, and then moved to the free-market and right-wing liberal party, the VVD.
He's lost a lot of his party's support too, so it will be very difficult for him to stay in Dutch politics.
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