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[leonkennedysprostate]

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"Gisternacht stemde de Tweede Kamer in met de asielwetten van minister Faber.

Door deze wetten krijgen mensen die vluchten voor oorlog niet meer de hulp die ze nodig hebben. En in plaats van dat deze wetten komen met échte oplossingen voor de asielopvang, zorgen ze juist voor meer stilstand en achteruitgang.

Door deze wetten wordt het zelfs strafbaar om ongedocumenteerde mensen te helpen met een maaltijd, onderdak of kleding.

In plaats van het genadeloos straffen van mensen op de vlucht en de Nederlanders die hun een helpende hand bieden, wil de sociale meerderheid samen vooruit: fatsoenlijk beleid zonder mensenrechten overboord te gooien. Deze asielwetten zijn asociaal, onverantwoord en onmenselijk. Maar het is nog niet te laat om ze tegen te houden!

Na de zomer stemt de Eerste Kamer erover. Als we nu onze stem laten horen kunnen we samen deze onrechtvaardige wetten tegenhouden. Dit is onze kans om ons uit te spreken, voor het te laat is. Om samen vooruit te komen.

Help ons dit onmenselijke beleid tegen te houden. Teken de petitie! " via groenlinks on instagram

"Last night, the House of Representatives voted in favor of Minister Faber's asylum laws.

These laws mean that people fleeing war no longer receive the help they need. And instead of providing real solutions for asylum reception, these laws actually cause more stagnation and regression.

These laws even make it a criminal offense to help undocumented people with a meal, shelter or clothing.

Instead of mercilessly punishing those who flee and the Dutch who offer them a helping hand, the social majority wants to move forward together: decent policies without throwing human rights overboard. These asylum laws are antisocial, irresponsible and inhumane. But it is not too late to stop them!

De Eerste Kamer will vote on them after the summer. If we make our voices heard now, we can stop these unjust laws together. This is our chance to speak out, before it is too late. To move forward together.

Help us stop this inhumane policy. Sign the petition! " via groenlinks on instagram

[tomorrowusa]

There's been a great amount of consternation over the results of the November 22nd elections in the Netherlands. Much of the hysteria comes from people who know nothing about Dutch politics or how the constitutional system works there.

We see news stories in Anglophone media saying that Geert Wilders and his far right PVV party "won" the election.

It's true that the PVV won more seats than any other single party there. However what's often left out is that the PVV won just 37 seats in the lower house of the Dutch parliament (called the Tweede Kamer) out of a total of 150 seats. A governing majority requires 76 seats and the PVV is 39 seats short of that. The PVV simply cannot govern by itself.

Politics in the Netherlands is quite fragmented. And because of an overly strict system of proportional representation for the Tweede Kamer, a lot of little shit parties representing narrow interests manage to win seats. 15 parties won seats in the recent election.

The outgoing VVD (24 seats) and the GLPVDA (25 seats) have already said they would not join a coalition with Wilders's PVV. The new NSC (20 seats) has been very iffy; its leader said he would not support the PVV's anti-Islamic policies which would violate the Dutch constitution. Don't expect DENK, (3 seats), an immigrant rights party, to join a PVV coalition. VOLT (2 seats) is a pro-EU party which would not likely join in a coalition led by Wilders who is anti-EU. The SP (5 seats) is a socialist party diametrically opposed to the PVV. D66 (9 seats) is a socially progressive and its membership would probably not be comfortable in a Wilders-led coalition.

So if you add up the seats for parties which may have reservations about the PVV, it's a clear majority.

HOWEVER, Wilders may try to entice one some of those parties with pledges of moderation; though that may not sit well with hardliners in his own party.

Another possibility would be for the GLPVDA, VVD, NSC, and D66 to try to form a government. They do have 78 seats, two more than needed for a majority. Though in Dutch politics it wouldn't look good for the party with the largest number of seats to be left out of government.

A more likely possibility would be for the VVD or NSC to prop up a Wilders government without joining it. This way they would not be tainted by direct association with him and could pull the rug out from under him if he becomes too extreme.

One last option is simply to string out coalition negotiations while a caretaker runs the country. It usually takes about three months to form a government under normal circumstances in the Netherlands. But in 2017 it took a record 225 days to do so. In neighboring Belgium it took 589 days to form a government back in 2010-2011.

So people freaking out over Geert Wilders should dial down their stress levels at least a bit. Even if he becomes prime minister he'll be limited in what he can do. Though this election should serve as a warning to other democratic countries not to take things for granted.