THe PPV is in trouble, they had presumed that at this point that the Dutch people would be begging for them to take power and polls have shown this to be untrue.

There assumption that The Netherlands and Europe would be a battle field between Muslim immigrants and indigenous whites has of course not occured. The result therefore is that this "single-agenda based party" is only of value when something ugly happens and they can count on backlash and anger, but the people of The Netherlands are simply smarter than that.

Madlener has nothing to say and would be eaten alive by real politicians and the fact that Wilders put his name on the ballot but would "not take up his seat if elected" shows that lack of seriousness or at best just another way of putting his name in the papers.

Let us just hope the court system does find him guilty on the two charges he still has to face and take him (and certainly his party) out of the system altogether.

By Solkhar | May 6, 2009 12:17 PM

What utter nonsense! PVV is not the first to do a no show debate, and debating with PVDA and VVD is hardly a challenge to anyone these days. It would only be laughable that VVD and PVDA are so desperate to try to regain seats that this is argument was the best they could come up with. We all know that PVDA and VVD are just grasping at straws here. PVDA does not know whether they are right or left, socialist or extreme right. VVD only tries to cash in on Geert Wilders ideas after Geert Wilders already came up with them. Nice try PVDA AND VVD, PVV will only gain more support and will win!

By sandra | May 6, 2009 1:27 PM

No, the truth is that both parties are suffering badly in the polls and they want a chance to trump Wilders and his men and make a comeback. The people from the PVV are the bravest in all the Netherlands. Wilders has to have two policemen by his side even in his heavily guarded office. He can only see his wife one day each week. He gets so many death threats each day that he just puts them all in a package and mails them to the police every now and then. His travel is extremely limited because of the danger, and Muslim lobbyist attempts to extradite him to Jordan for trial. Wilders is NO coward... and accusations of cowardice coming from the same politicians who say they would accept Shariah law in the Netherlands if there was a Muslim majority, and beg Muslims on their knees for forgiveness because one or two newspaper editors were practicing their freedom of expression, would be laughable if they weren't so serious.

By Jack Worthing | May 8, 2009 7:10 PM