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A Dictionary of Dutchness
PVV
The Partij voor de Vrijheid (Freedom Party) was formed in 2007 by Geert Wilders, once an MP for the free market Liberals (VVD). Wilders – famed for his odd, peroxide blond hair – has for years been a staunch campaigner against the ‘Islamisation’ of the Netherlands. His party’s website states that the PVV is for ‘better schools, lower taxes and a halt to immigration’. The PVV, which Wilders runs with an iron fist, took nine out of the 150 seats in the lower house of parliament in the 2006 general election and is expected to do much better in 2011.
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