Dutch general election - September 2012

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Its a legitimate goal in a democracy to want to preserve your country as an ethnically based nation state.

That sounds like a rationale for "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 90s. Any relation to Ratko Mladic and Milosevic?

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I think the racist people in the Netherlands who vote for the PVV missed the boat in the 17th century when they could have emigrated to South Africa and helped build the racially pure apartheid Boer state there.

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The stuff that gets said about Muslims in Europe these days sounds almost identical to the things that were being said about Jews in the 1930s...just sayin'

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Hasn't Italy had some governments led by people from successor parties to the Communist Party of Italy?

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FYI, San Marino elected a Communist government in the 70s. So there!

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What is the price of bringing the Party of the Animals into a coalition? Does the entire country have to become vegan??

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The nice thing about these polls is that if present trends continue it will be mathematically impossible for there to be a pure rightwing government like the current one VVD-PVV-CDA is way below 75 seats now.

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Is it going to be possible for there to be any government that does not include both VVD AND PvdA? or is some sort of "grand coalition" almost inevitable?

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How important is it whether VVD or PvdA is the biggest party? I assume that if PvdA crafts and leftwing coalition, it doesn't matter if VVD has more seats since they would not be part of the gov't - but I assume that if there is a "grand coalition" just of VVD and PvdA the party with more seats supplies the Prime Minister, right?

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Needless to say it is now mathematically impossible for there to be a purely right of centre government as well - VVD+PVV+CDA no loner adds up at all.