Geert Wilders reacts to the results of the House of Representatives elections in Scheveningen, Netherlands, November 22. ANP/ANP/ABACA
PORTRAIT – The politician who triumphed in the parliamentary elections was threatened by several fatwas from imams calling for his beheading and lives under protection 24 hours a day.
Seven years ago he was dubbed “the Dutch Donald Trump” and, flattered by the comparison, Geert Wilders rushed to the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio, to witness the triumph of the New York billionaire’s nomination. He had walked the crowded corridors of the sports arena where the event was taking place, with his helmet of bleached white-blond hair and his tall, elegant figure, expressing his admiration for Trump.
“If I were an American, I would vote for him. Americans in America and Europe feel abandoned by their leaders; they no longer want open borders or terrorist attacks in Nice, Germany, Belgium or the Netherlands. Low,” he told us, also citing Brexit in the UK and Marine Le Pen’s growing results to illustrate his point.
But if Wilders is part of a nationwide populist anti-immigration wave sweeping the West, including Argentina, then…
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