21.30: Nu tekstet. En engelsk transskription findes  nedenfor:

The anti-Islam Freedom Party  politician Geert Wilders has made major gains in local elections held in the Netherlands. Taking part in two cities it has become the largest party in Almere and the second largest in The Hague.Mr Wilders was visibly buoyed by the results and was characteristically combative saying this was the first step in the upcoming campaign for parliamentary elections.”The national campaign begins today in Almere and The Hague, tomorrow in all of the Netherlands… On 9 June, we’ll conquer the Netherlands,” said Mr Wilders…….And, of course, Geert Wilders now has his eye on the larger prize. The Freedom Party has profited more than any other from the fall of the Dutch cabinet ten days ago. The party currently has 9 seats in parliament (out of 150). If voters had elected a new parliament on Wednesday, the Freedom Party would have won between 24 and 27 seats. In one poll, it would be the largest single party. If his party does that well come June, Geert Wilders could become the next prime minister. Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam party makes major gains.

Hvor danske medier har forskellige neutrale rubrikker til historien som Holland: Godt valg for Wilders Frihedsparti, Radioavisen: Kanonvalg for Wilders, finske YLE Lokalval visar riktningen i Holland, har de fire store svenske jeg har set en enslydende TT artikel der går helt amok: Framgång för holländsk extremhöger,det islamkritiska och högerextremistiska Frihetspartiet (PVV). Så skulle den nyhed vist være færdigtygget. Dansk TV avisen har historien, DR 2 Deadline 22.30 har naturligvis også et fyldigt indslag, der  beskæftiger sig med hans sikkerhed politiske perspektiver og et længere interview med professor Claes de Vreese fra Holland. Svenske Aktuellt kl. 21 ikke en lyd. Public services enestående politiseren fornægter sig ikke. Vindkraft, irakiske kvinder og genmodificerede kartofler er prioriterede indslag.  -Vi har fået denne oversættelse af Wilders´tale fra Holland:

Dear people,

It looks as though we are the largest party in Almere and the second party in the Hague. When some six months ago we decided to participate in the elections in Almere and the Hague, we were laughed at. “Oh, they will surely not succeed in that.” And now the biggest.

The entire left-wing octopus came into action against us. Every day the state broadcaster showed an anti-PVV program, left-wing demonstrators came to Almere, posters were destroyed, and of course there was the familiar amount of intimidations, insults, and curses. Agnes Kant [Socialist Party, SP] even said: “Mr. Wilders is the threat to our society.” Well, thank you, Agnes.

But the leftists’ church had forgotten one thing: here we have deployed one of our best people. And look who is the big winner tonight! That is only one person. That is our super-cannon. That is our own Raymond de Roon. Raymond: Congratulations! And of course, Almere: Congratulations! And from here also applause and congratulations for Sietse Fritsma and his team in The Hague!

Raymond put up a rock of a campaign. He was everywhere in the city. Raymond has made clear the choice that lies before us. Either the way of hope and optimism, or a program of danger and Islamization. Almere has chosen. And now it is the
turn for the Netherlands.

Dear friends, one thing is very important now. I wish to whisper a number to you. For this success is really great. What can be in Almere, later on can be in the entire Netherlands! This is our springboard to victory on June 9. Today Almere and Hague, tomorrow the Netherlands!

The campaign for the general elections has just begun. And I have good news. Maurice de Hond [a major polling bureau] conducted a poll today, and with 27 seats the PVV is the largest party in the Netherlands!

The figure I want to whisper you is the number 5. Because that is the list number of the PVV in the elections on June 9. Our 5 will be the winning number for the Netherlands. With that number we will reconquer the Netherlands. The leftist elite still believes in the multi-nonsense and the coddling of criminals and the development aid and the European super-state and high taxes. But the rest of the Netherlands thinks very differently. That silent majority also deserves a voice. And on June 9 that voice will sound loud and clear.

Then hundreds of thousands of Dutch will choose list 5 – the Party for Freedom. The voters today in Almere and the Hague have opted for a new, better, and stronger sound in their city. The sound of the PVV. And I predict to you: on June 9 we together with all those Dutch people who want a safer and stronger Netherlands will gain a resounding victory in the national elections! We can become the largest party in the Netherlands. Thank you!     (Belien og Wilders i København:)

Paul Belien: The Wilders Momentum

Wilders is a shrewd but cautious political strategist. He has learned from the experience of the LPF, the party of the late Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. In many respects Fortuyn stood for the same ideas as Wilders. After Fortuyn’s assassination the LPF fell apart in quarrelling factions. In 2007 the party lost its 8 seats in Parliament, while the PVV gained 9 seats in the first parliamentary elections in which it participated.

Geert Wilders is currently the most interesting political phenomenon in Europe. He is an anti-establishment politician who has a good chance of becoming a leading member of his country’s next government. Wilders defends Dutch national sovereignty and opposes the European Union’s centralizing policies. He also defends Dutch national identity and opposes the Islamization of the Netherlands. Wilders’ themes appeal to people in other European countries as well. They are equally concerned about the loss of national sovereignty and identity and feel that Europe’s traditional parties no longer speak for them.

From the center-right to the center-left Europe’s establishment parties share the consensus that Islamization and EU centralization are inevitable and must be facilitated if the parties want to survive and hold on to power. Wilders, however, is a politician who, in a Buckleyan tradition, “stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.”

On international issues Wilders adopts positions which also go against those of Europe’s ruling political and intellectual establishment. He is an opponent of Turkey’s entry into the EU, an outspoken defender of Israel and an advocate of stronger American-European relations. This makes him unpopular with the media, but it has not harmed him with the electorate.
During the past three years, Wilders has been screening and training potential candidates for the parliamentary elections. To avoid attracting political opportunists and quarrelsome wranglers, he has been bringing potential candidates together in “class rooms” every Saturday He has also had them coached by the party’s current parliamentarians. When the Dutch government fell two weeks ago, Wilders announced that he was ready for the elections and able to field a list of decent and capable candidates.

Wilders has carefully avoided international contacts with foreign anti-establishment and anti-immigrant parties who have been tarnished by anti-Semitic elements in the past. Wilders regards support for Israel as the litmus test to decide with whom he is willing to cooperate. His only official contacts so far have been with the Danish People’s Party (DF) and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The PVV leader has traveled to Denmark and Britain to speak at the invitation of the DF and UKIP. Last year, the British Labour government banned Wilders from entering Britain when he traveled there to speak in the House of Lords at the invitation of UKIP leader Lord Malcolm Pearson. The ban has meanwhile been overruled in court. As it happens, Wilders will be in London tomorrow, Friday, to hold the speech which he was prevented from holding in February 2009. On this occasion he will also show the short documentary Fitna which he made in 2008 to warn the world about Islam, which in his opinion is a dangerous ideology rather than a religion. [..]

The American journalist Diana West, author of the book The Death of the Grown-Up, says that Wilders is “so important as a politician leading the reversal of the Islamization of the West” because of the clarity of the distinction which he makes between Islam and other religions. “He defies the multicultural lock on truth as he rejects the cultural relativist’s denial of identity.” […]

Wilders is familiar with the Danish model. In the past three years he has met the DF leadership in the Danish Parliament on two occasions. Not being a member of a government coalition, whilst still being able to set its agenda, might be an attractive alternative to the shrewd Dutch political tactician. It would also give him the opportunity to continue visiting Western countries, including America, to warn the West about the danger of Islam and to build an international political movement opposing multiculturalist relativism. Brussels Journal (Wilders, Hedegaard, Sultan, Fishman, Kjærsgaard og Dali i København.)

En tekstet udgave af en valgdebat på blanke klinger mellem Wilders og Wouter Bos forleden er også nået frem. Man får flashbacks til tv dueller i 2002 med Pim Fortuyn kort inden mordet, der midlertidigt stoppede en uundgåelig politisk udvikling. Wilders Wins the TV Debate

GoV: In our series about the parallels between Pim Fortuyn in 2002 and Geert Wilders in 2010, instead of videos we will look at political cartoons. The cartoon above appeared on the website of the state-funded broadcaster VARA in the Netherlands. The iterated bird in the sky is the symbol of Geert Wilders’ party, the PVV.

For anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of recent history, this image is quite chilling. Remember what happened to Pim Fortuyn. Doesn’t this seem like a recommended course of action for the general public, as distributed through the state propaganda service?  Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated an article about this and other cartoons by the same artist, taken from Dagelijkse Standaard: