Bizarre Dutch Poll

[freek]

Some other polls, from http://www.politiekebarometer.nl/

(22 Nov 2006 are the most recent elections for the Tweede Kamer).

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			22 Nov 2006	19 Jun 2008	3 Jul 2008

CDA 	    		26,5 41 		20,1 31 		23,3 36
PvdA 			21,2 	33 		14,8 	23 		15,4 	24
SP 			16,6 	25 		13,3 	20 		12,2 	19
VVD 			14,7 	22 		10,5 	16 		10,8 	16
PVV/Wilders 	5,9 	9 		7,0 	10 		7,3 	11
GroenLinks 	4,6 	7 		5,7 	8 		5,5 	8
ChristenUnie 	4,0 	6 		5,1 	8 		5,4 	8
D66 			2,0 	3 		6,5 	10 		5,8 	9
SGP 			1,6 	2 		1,9 	2 		1,9 	2
PvdD		 	1,8 	2 		1,8 	2 		1,9 	2
Verdonk 		0,0 	0 		12,9 	20 		10,1 	15
Other Parties	1,2 	0 		0,4 	0 		0,4 	0

Rita Verdonk's Trots op Nederland (ToN) managed to lose 5 seats in 2 weeks in the polls because of some financial conflict with her former advisor, in a way reminiscent of the good old LPF (Fortuyn List).

Or, in a parody on ToN's party poster, which portrays Verdonk as a captain on a ship:


a cartoonist came up with:

[freek]

Ah, OK, so she seems to be collapsing now.

For the moment, yes. But the next Dutch elections are scheduled for May 2011, so there is quite some time left for Verdonk to really build up her party.

[freek]

Not as bizarre as before, but I found this thread and decided to bump it.

CDA 24.2% 37 seats
PvdA 23.2% 36
VVD 11% 17
SP 9.7% 15
D66 7.2% 11
PVV 6.6% 10
GroenLinks 6.1% 9
CU 4.3% 6
Verdonk 3.7% 5
SGP 1.9% 2
Animals 1.5% 2
Others 0.6

Some explanations for changes since last summer:

PvdA won back 10 seats in the polls. There is one reason for this: Party leader, deputy prime minister and Finance Minister Wouter Bos. He nationalised ABN AMRO Bank and Fortis Bank to save both banks from bankruptcy. The public, MPs and political journalists all three named him Politician of the Year.

Verdonk lost most of her seats in the polls, because of some incidents. Her spin doctor had to resign because he admitted that her political program consisted of air, and nothing more, and he was quite proud that despite her lack of ideas ToN had 15 seats in the polls. He told this in a lecture for Political Science students, one of the students taped the lecture and sent it to a web log.

Also, Verdonk was a lefty in her younger years, in the 1970s. However, according to her she was only active in feminist groups, and she lived in a squatted building. She had never a member of political groups, or even involved in politics in that era. In a television programme someone asked her if she had been a member of the Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP, merged into GroenLinks in 1990). Rita Verdonk denied this. They then showed to Verdonk her application form and membership card, and she had to admit that indeed she had been a member, but she had forgotten this.