.ON NOVEMBER 22ND Geert Wilders's anti-immigrant Party for Liberty (PVV) ended up first in the Dutch basic election, winning 37 of the 150 chairs in parliament, or 23.6% of the vote. His triumph was a substantial unpleasant surprise. But the recipient of this abrupt turn to the challenging right is no startup. The 60-year-old Mr Wilders is actually the longest-serving MP in the Dutch assemblage, having actually entered in 1998 as a member of the centre-right Liberals (VVD). He stopped that event in 2004 over what he considered its soft qualities towards Islam, and started the PVV in 2006. He has always had a sound bottom of citizen support, yet has spent his parliamentary occupation mostly on the sidelines, locked out of influence by various other parties' refusal to collaborate with him. Currently there is actually a good chance that this will certainly transform.