Christophe de VOOGD VICTORY FOR POPULISM IN THE NETHERLANDS: A NATIONAL

The Right as a whole confirmed the success predicted in the polls, with 2/3 of the votes and seats (100 out of 150), but at the cost of a profound rebalancing in favour of non-traditional parties and to the detriment of the major government parties. [...] The rest of the right-wing electorate was dispersed among smaller parties: the BBB (The Farmer–Citizen Movement), also a newcomer to national politics, born out of the farmers anger of recent years and the big winner of the spring 2023 provincial elections; the orthodox Protestant party SGP; the remnants of the long-standing flagship party of Dutch politics, the CDA ; and those of Thierry Baudet's. [...] Political Compromise and the Dilemma of Progressivism The explanation may lie in the fact that the "Rutte system" was based on a compromise between the right and left of government in favor of economic liberalism on the one hand, and societal progressivism on the other: on the one hand, a very proactive policy to maintain public accounts threatened by the major crises of 2008-2010 and 2020-2021, r. [...] And the hypothesis of a final eviction of the PVV after the failure of negotiations clashes with the party's steady rise in public opinion: in the spring of 2024, it is reaching a third of the votes and seats in the polls in the event of dissolution, while the VVD retreats and the NSC collapses. [...] The Populist dilemma Last but not least, the PVV is faced with a dilemma which mirrors that of the left, and which, in the words of Dominique Reynié, could be called the "populist dilemma": the impossible reconciliation between sovereignty, its fundamental political inspiration, and the electorate's attachment to the major achievements of European integration, and above all to the euro31.