right-wing party Peasant-Citizen Movement (BBB for its Dutch acronym) emerged as a major winner of the Dutch regional elections with close to 20 percent of the vote, and together with the Social Democrats and Greens coalition became the top power in the Senate.
State elections indirectly determine the composition of the Senate. BBB It won 15 seats, according to preliminary results published by the Dutch Public Broadcasting System (NOS).
Biggest loser was the party Christian Democratsmember of the governing coalition that lost half of its seats.
BBB, which currently has only one chair, national parliamentIt has gained immense popularity both in the countryside and in the city, acting as a voice against proposed government environmental regulations that want to reduce nitrogen emissions and have protested many times in recent years. even violently.
The four Dutch parties that make up centre-right coalition They have suffered significant losses and will occupy less than a third of the seats in the Senate, threatening the stability of the right-liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who has been in office since 2010.
“You can no longer ignore us. we will enter the government“, declared BBB leader Carlone van der Plas, whose party demands that proposals for intervention in intensive agriculture be “off the table”.
Farmers say implementing these policies would mean bankruptcy for many families who have since devoted themselves to the industry. Both livestock and fertilizers emit large amounts of nitrogen.
During the last summer they closed major highways and threw manure on the tracks to protest the government’s green policy.
About thirteen million Dutch were summoned Elections of twelve states. At the local level, provinces have the authority to decide on road construction, transportation policies, environmental protection and housing construction.