Two years ago, the unheard Netherlands was suddenly heard, loud and clear. The system parties VVD, CDA, (GL/)PvdA and D66 were defeated by the PVV, the long-time representative of the populist right, Omtzigt's NSC, and the agrarian BBB. Its culmination was a cabinet of those three, and the VVD, under independent senior civil servant Dick Schoof as prime minister.
Cabinet Schoof rose under inauspicious stars, however, and soon proved rife with distrust and infighting, achieving little. The PVV saw obstruction everywhere: by its coalition parties, the opposition, the institutions. It was not useful to continue onwards, and the PVV walked away. Now the PVV is back where they began: spat out by an establishment that tries to recapture the initiative.
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The rise of Pieter Omtzigt's New Social Contract however hit the CDA hard, with the party being reduced to a measly five seats. In the 80s, it had 10 times that size. NSC's fall, however, has been as swift as its rise. The CDA's new leader Henri Bontenbal is extremely popular, and even tipped to be the next prime minister. Before that comes to fruition however, those positive polls shall need to become a bit more positive still.
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The rise of GL/PvdA and the popularity of the CDA make it difficult for D66 to find its way into conversation, with poll numbers changing relatively little despite the monstrous failure that is the Schoof cabinet. Reports about the failed election in 2023 have found that the party is considered 'too woke'. Will D66 be able to claw its way back to the central podium of politics?
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However, this aim fell short in 2023: while the combination went up eight seats compared to 2021, the PVV far outclassed the party-to-be. Hopes that VVD and NSC would shun the PVV in GL/PvdA's favor went up in smokes. But PVV-VVD-NSC-BBB cabinet was a veritable disaster. Perhaps a second chance is in the cards.
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JA21 purports to be a 'proper' right-wing party that fills the perceived electoral gap between the conservative liberal VVD and the right-wing populist PVV. That could be a comfortable position in this election, since the PVV has isolated itself and will not be able to govern, while the VVD is expected by many right-wing voters to simply steer the Netherlands back into the regular left-wing cabinet with D66 and GL/PvdA. In addition, by not being part of cabinet Schoof, JA21's hands are clean. Perhaps they can do what the cabinet could not?
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With that, the PVV became a true governing party, with committed, if unconventional ministers. But the cabinet was not successful, if you ask the PVV due to unprecedented obstruction from all kinds of actors. In the end, that was reason for the PVV to leave. Now the PVV is back where it started: a party of significant strength, but shunned by the establishment.
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Of all the parties, the VVD has governed for the most time. Since its foundation, it has taken part in 19 cabinets, albeit for most of its existence not as the largest party. Indeed, it has governed continuously on the national level for the past 15 years. Even despite the significant realignment in 2023, the VVD both led the Rutte IV cabinet that came before it and took part in the Schoof cabinet that came after it.
And yet, cracks are beginning to show. In 2023, the VVD lost ten seats, and thus far, Dilan Yeşilgöz has a hard time filling the shoes of Mark Rutte. The weak performance of the Schoof cabinet and party fatigue with both the voter and the other parties with which to form a coalition also do not help. It will be up to the VVD to prove that they can dodge the fate of the CDA and PvdA.
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\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 112, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Frans\", \"last_name\": \"Timmermans\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"GL/PvdA (PvdA)\", \"state\": \"Limburg\", \"priority\": 9, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#B56B21\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#DE9B59\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/u0k3B8t.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Frans Timmermans is a PvdA veteran, who returned to the Netherlands from his senior position in the European Commission to oversee the new merger of GL and PvdA and also with the hope of perhaps becoming the first left-wing prime minister since Wim Kok. By many accounts however, The Hague changed in the 8 years he was absent from it, and the hope of winning the election in 2023 was dashed when GL/PvdA ended as the distant second behind Geert Wilders' right-wing populist PVV. In turn, GL/PvdA was relegated to the opposition, when it became clear that the VVD and NSC were not going to block the PVV from governance.
The PVV's cabinet however became an appalling failure, causing the Netherlands to return to the polls two years later. This provides a new opportunity to a more adjusted Timmermans to fulfill his hopes of becoming this country's new prime minister. Will the second time prove the charm?
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Yeşilgöz took her first steps into politics in the SP, with more right-wing parties not even being in consideration due to her background. She did not feel welcomed in the left-wing parties however, which according to her patronized her, and that eventually led her to the VVD.
In 2021, Yeşilgöz, then state secretary, was bombarded Minister of Justice and Security in Rutte IV. This gave her enough weight when Rutte then did finally leave, she was the certain successor.
And yet, a series of strategic mistakes in 2023, denied Yeşilgöz her predecessor's office, and the VVD joined the supposedly extraparliamentary Schoof cabinet, which has been far from successful.
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 516, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Rob\", \"last_name\": \"Jetten\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"D66\", \"state\": \"Noord-Brabant\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/0EVGpDm.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Rob Jetten is the leader of D66's parliamentary group. Before that, he had been the Minister for Climate and Energy in the Rutte IV cabinet, and before that he had already led D66 as the party's interim leader following Alexander Pechtold's departure, a position he gave up to Sigrid Kaag in 2021 without resistance, which paid off in the form of D66's substantial victory that year.
With Kaag's departure and D66 being blamed for not preventing Mark Rutte from becoming prime minister yet again without GroenLinks and PvdA, D66 had a bad campaign that year, but Jetten was credited for a strong performance in the debates. Nonetheless, the polls have not yet recorded a significant uptick. It will be up to Jetten to display that his party is on the up again.
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 517, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Geert\", \"last_name\": \"Wilders\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"PVV\", \"state\": \"Limburg\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/pKEs2r2.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Geert Wilders is the oldest and by extension most experienced MP in the Tweede Kamer by a long shot. Having entered the Tweede Kamer in 1998 as a protegé of Frits Bolkestein, and even having been the tutor of Mark Rutte when he first became MP, he broke with the VVD in 2004 over the issue of Turkey joining the EU. He then founded the PVV, his own party of which he is the only member. Eversince, Wilders is the face of right-wing populism in the Netherlands, both domestically and abroad.
When the PVV won the 2023 election in a landslide, Wilders would ordinarily have become the prime minister. Yet, his long list of controversies led NSC and VVD to deny him the position, something he accepted to make a right-wing coalition possible. However, when the goals of the PVV were not met, the PVV left. And thus here we are again. Will Geert this time become big enough that nobody can stand in the way of him becoming prime minister anymore?
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Following Lilianne Ploumen's resignation, Kuiken defeated Nijboer to claim the party's leadership. Kuiken has taken the lead over the Labour Party at a time of crisis: still stuck on an abominable 9 seats, the process to merge with GroenLinks is accelerating. Is Attje the right person to lead this process?
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After working as a staffer for the ChristianUnion parliamentary faction, she was elected as senator in 2015, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 2021. When Gert-Jan Segers stopped as party leader, Bikker was elected without opposition to succeed him in that role, which she still has. Can Bikker prove once again that the CU can govern constructively without losing support?
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 521, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Stephan\", \"last_name\": \"van Baarle\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"DENK\", \"state\": \"Zuid-Holland\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/6fJNWcU.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Stephan van Baarle was one of the first members of DENK when the party was founded, and consequently became the director its scientific bureau, STATERA, in 2015, as part of which he participated in writing the party's electoral program. Although Van Baarle failed to enter the House of Representatives in 2017, he successfully led DENK in the Rotterdam municipal elections, and eventually entered the House in 2021.
Although Van Baarle does have a half-Turkish background, he distinguishes himself from his predecessors Kuzu and Azarkan in that he is agnostic and not Muslim. This could provide him with the ideal background to try and broaden DENK's appeal beyond its stable Turkish immigrant base, if he so desires.
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 522, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Thierry\", \"last_name\": \"Baudet\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"FvD\", \"state\": \"Noord-Holland\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/LilkZf1.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Thierry Baudet achieved national prominence in 2016 as one of the main initiators of the 2016 referendum on the Ukrainian Association agreement, and ran for parliament in 2017 when the government failed to follow the outcome of the referendum.
Baudet made name for himself as an eccentric. He held his maiden speech in parliament in Latin. Nevertheless, in his early career he was often viewed as a more moderate alternative to the PVV. On the back of this, he led his Forum to victory in the 2019 provincial elections, raising the prospect of him becoming prime minister. However, after he increasingly sided with more radical elements within his party, Forum's electoral fortunes reversed with infighting. The 2021 election was still a relative success as Baudet was the only one to oppose the government's measures, securing Forum eight seats. With the pandemic a distant memory, retaining those voters may be difficult, however.
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 523, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Henri\", \"last_name\": \"Bontenbal\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"CDA\", \"state\": \"Zuid-Holland\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/sb3MKwP.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Having started his career as an advisor on sustainability, Henri Bontenbal started working in the support staff of the CDA in 2011. From there he became a junior fellow in the Scientific Institute of the CDA and started working as a senior strategy consultant for Stedin, the entity administrating the Randstad's power supply.
In 2021 he failed to be elected to the House of Representatives, being placed 17th on the CDA's list, when the CDA won only 15 seats. Nevertheless, he temporarily replaced Pieter Omtzigt during his burnout as well as Harry van der Molen. When party leader Wopke Hoekstra entered the cabinet in january 2022 he finally became a permanent member of the House. When Hoekstra left, a wounded CDA was looking for a new leader. While Bontenbal could not prevent the CDA from being downgraded to five seats and being relegated to the backbenches, he managed to restore the morale in the party. These days he's the golden goose. Will that remain the case?
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 524, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Derk\", \"last_name\": \"Boswijk\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"CDA\", \"state\": \"Utrecht\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/icAVYUO.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Derk Boswijk originally started as the founder of an engineering bureau who started as a PVV supporter. He eventually joined the CDA and was elected to the Provincial Estates of Utrecht in 2015 and from there focused on the portfolio of environment, mobility and economy.
In 2021, he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he showed himself to be an active parliamentarian who gained credits criticizing the flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan, which has seen him compared to the CDA's forfeit star Pieter Omtzigt. Can this reputation help him secure the survival of the CDA?
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Stoffer, by contrast, spent most of his political life on the municipal council of the village of Nunspeet, when he, as the SGP's fifth on the list in 2017, inherited Elbert Dijkgraaf's seat in the House of Representatives in 2018. Will Stoffer fulfill the expectations that he will maintain the stability of the SGP as its long-time face leaves politics?
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 526, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Lilian\", \"last_name\": \"Marijnissen\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"SP\", \"state\": \"Noord-Brabant\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/a6NkBgY.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Lilian Marijnissen is the daughter of former SP-leader Jan Marijnissen, who led the SP from a tiny party only locally represented in Oss to one that reliably won representation in national politics in the 90s and then to its high point in 2006, when it beat its arch-nemesis the VVD to become the third largest party in the country.
Marijnissen took over from Emile Roemer in 2017. Since then, the SP has been defeated in every election that was held, be it municipal, European, general, municipal again or provincial. Nonetheless, she has been unanimously selected by the party to lead the party again into this election. Can she finally break her dubious streak?
\", \"candidate_score\": 0.0}}, {\"model\": \"campaign_trail.candidate\", \"pk\": 527, \"fields\": {\"first_name\": \"Esther\", \"last_name\": \"Ouwehand\", \"election\": 11, \"party\": \"PvdD\", \"state\": \"Zuid-Holland\", \"priority\": 8, \"description\": \"'\", \"color_hex\": \"#FF0000\", \"secondary_color_hex\": \"#FFA0A0\", \"is_active\": 0, \"image_url\": \"https://i.imgur.com/sl0LpVu.png\", \"electoral_victory_message\": \"'\", \"electoral_loss_message\": \"'\", \"no_electoral_majority_message\": \"'\", \"description_as_running_mate\": \"Esther Ouwehand was the second of the Animal Party's first two MPs, the other having been the party's founder and Ouwehand's predecessor as leader, Marianne Thieme.
When Thieme left the House of Representatives in 2021, Ouwehand took over from her as the party's face, and successfully continued the PvdD's slow yet steady growth, securing six seats in that year's election. This year's prospects similarly look rose-colored, despite the rise of the joint Labour-Green list theoretically making for a hostile environment.
However, unbeknownst to the public, tensions are rising between Ouwehand and the party chair, over whether the party is to remain testimonial in nature, or whether it should be willing to participate.
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Now, Dassen and Volt want to grow further, but GL/PvdA led by EU heavyweight Frans Timmermans pose a formidable challenge to Volt's ambitions.
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Karremans could provide an opening for the more centrist wing of the VVD to take the forefront yet again, but he will have to play it strategically. The national VVD leadership is likely too cautious to nominate someone like Karremans, with no national credentials. If his bid stands opposed to a leadership-sponsored bid and is handled poorly, it could devolve into a mudfight which will likely end any hope of the VVD winning a fifth general election in a row no matter who prevails in the end.
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With the departure of Mark Rutte creating a power vacuum in the VVD top, and the relative popularity of Dijkhoff with both the public and the party leadership, it is likely that he would be able to easily secure the party leadership should he desire it.
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Having become the number two of the LPF, Eerdmans was re-elected to the House after the demise of the first Balkenende cabinet. By 2006, with the LPF in tatters, he tried to be re-elected with the new party EénNL, which failed. After that, he was active in municipal politics in Cappelle and then Rotterdam. After a brief stint with Forum, which he left before the 2021 election, he formed JA21 with fellow Forumite Annabel Nanninga. In 2023, JA21 had a bad election and Eerdmans was left as JA21's sole MP, but as such JA21 remained unaffiliated with the damaging Schoof cabinet. That could prove a boon this election.
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