Holland is at the polls… Will the candidate of Turkish origin and the anti-Erdogan name make an alliance?

Voting has begun in the general elections in the Netherlands. The voting process will begin at 07:30 local time (09:30 CET) and will continue until 21:00 (23:00 CET).

In the elections, 1,126 candidates and 26 parties compete for 150 seats. In the elections in which 42 candidates of Turkish origin participated, no party is expected to achieve the majority to form a government alone. The first election results are expected to be announced late tonight.

It is claimed that the process in which the party with the most seats in parliament will propose to other parties to form a government can take days, weeks or even months. Previously, the country’s government was established in 229 days after the 2021 elections, this process took 225 days in 2017, 208 days in 1977 and 54 days in 2012.

FAR-RIGHT SAVAGES ARE ON THE RISE

According to the latest polls, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), led by the Minister of Justice and Security of the interim government, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, is expected to take first place by winning 29 seats, although its votes decreased compared to the previous elections.

It is claimed that the Freedom Party (PVV), led by the anti-Islam and far-right Geert Wilders, can increase the 17 seats it won in the 2021 elections to more than 20.

Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, Minister of Justice and Security in the interim government, whose family emigrated from Turkey to the Netherlands, leaves the door open to a coalition with the anti-Islamic and far-right PVV led by Wilders.

Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, who became head of the VVD after the leadership of Dutch interim government Prime Minister Mark Rutte, supported the Dutch Parliament’s bill recognizing Armenian claims regarding the events of 1915 when she was a member of parliament. of the VVD match in 2018. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)