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Dutch Farmers Storm To Victory In Regional Elections, Set To Become
Largest Party In The Senate

The success of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) will further
undermine the Dutch government’s plans to impose radical agricultural
reforms campaigners say will destroy rural communities...

Lawmaker Caroline van der Plas, leader of the populist BBB
Farmer-Citizen Movement, reacts after casting her vote for the
provincial elections in Okkenbroek, eastern Netherlands, Wednesday,
March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Voters dealt a hammer blow to the Dutch establishment in Wednesday’s
regional elections, propelling the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) to
become the largest party in the Senate in just its first election.

Exit polls projected the movement will win 15 seats in the Dutch upper
chamber as voters sent a clear message to Mark Rutte’s government over
its planned nitrogen emissions laws campaigners say will devastate the
country’s agricultural sector.

“The Dutch have clearly shown that they are fed up with the policy,”
BBB leader Caroline van der Plas told De Telegraaf late on Wednesday.
“I’m going to party.”

“The turnaround has started. The voters have spoken and have denounced
support of this government,” she added in a tweet.

“She did very well,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte admitted, whose
People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) saw its projected seats
fall from the current 12 to 10.

Government coalition parties didn’t fare much better. The liberal
party, Democrats 66 (D66), is projected to drop a seat, as is the
Christian Union (CU), while the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) is
expected to drop four seats from its current nine.

With a collective seat share of just 24, the government coalition has
fallen well short of a majority. It will now have to rely on working
with opposition parties on specific legislative proposals to push
through government policy.

The Senate wields considerable influence in the Netherlands, unlike
many other European nations. While it cannot initiate legislation, it
has the power to block government policy, and Thursday’s election
suggests a period of sustained political stalemate for the country.

One victim of the election night was Thierry Baudet’s Freedom For
Democracy (FvD) party. It saw its core voter base capitulate and is
expected to lose 10 of its 12 seats. The collapse suggests the surge
in support for BBB is to a large degree off the back of deep
anti-government and right-wing sentiment.

Turnout was 61 percent, up significantly by 5 percentage points on
2019, suggesting the BBB managed to galvanize disenfranchised voters
as the movement stormed to victory in almost every province to have
already declared an outcome, including Drenthe, Overijssel, Friesland,
Flevoland and Zeeland. The party is also projected to win in
Gelderland, North Brabant, Limburg, and Groningen, and is
neck-and-neck with the governing VVD in both North and South Holland.

The election result follows a recent Rabobank survey that revealed
just 1 percent of Dutch citizens believe the country is clearly
heading in the right direction, while 86 percent of respondents are
pessimistic about the country’s trajectory.

The rise of the BBB over the past two years has been in response to
the government’s plans to appease EU nitrogen emissions targets by
imposing radical agricultural reforms. It introduced plans last year
to reduce livestock numbers by a third, while farmers have also been
told their land could be subject to compulsory buyouts.

The policy resulted in agricultural workers staging several
demonstrations against the government, blocking motorways and
supermarket distribution centers in mass protests last year.

At a recent demonstration in The Hague ahead of the elections, over
10,000 Dutch farmers came to hear campaigners speaking out against the
government plans.

“We are fighting against a corrupt and unjust government,” Eva
Vlaardingerbroek, a prominent campaigner in defense of the farmers,
told attendees. She spoke of a government that “drives our farmers
from their land” and that has “turned on its own population.”

The planned reductions affecting Dutch agriculture have been described
by industry leaders as “so severe that rural communities will be
totally devastated economically.” Those were the words of Sander van
Diepen, a spokesperson for the Dutch agricultural and horticultural
association, LTO Nederland, speaking in June last year.

Wednesday’s electoral victory does not guarantee success against the
government’s plans, but with support from JA21 and Geert Wilders’ PVV
party, the farmers’ movement will be able to establish a solid block
of opposition to government policy and seek to frustrate the process.


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