Recent upheavals within the anti-Islam PVV have cost the party five seats in the latest Synovate poll.

The poll shows the party would take 25 seats if there was a general election tomorrow, one more than it won in June but five below its total two weeks ago.
The poll was taken after it emerged MP Eric Lucassen had lied about his criminal convictions but before James Sharpe resigned over allegations about his business and personal life.
Three of the PVV’s seats have transferred to the right-wing Liberal VVD and two have gone to the Socialists.
Panic

According to the Volkskrant, the PVV is now in panic. The party needs to find some 200 candidates to stand in the provincial elections on March 2.
This is essential to ensure the party gets enough seats on the 12 provincial councils to be represented in the upper house of parliament, or senate.
Without PVV representation in the senate, the new government is unlikely to have a majority there, and this will make it impossible to pass controversial legislation.