On the well-known picture of Thierry Baudet, is he face down on one of the wings, dressed in Jeans and cowboy boots, behind him on the wall behind it, a Goethe portrait hangs. With this mix of educated middle class and a Gigolo-Do, the 36-Year-old has become one of the most successful politicians in Holland. On Wednesday, his party emerged as the strongest from the elections, they won 13 seats out of 75 in the Senate. There are the FVD (Forum voor Democratie) only three years.
Baudet followed the classic resistance program of the modern Right: against “mass immigration”, against “political correctness” and “left-liberal elite”, against environmental protection, and equality. New to him, his relaxed attitude and the simultaneous showing of his education. Baudet has studied law and history, in his doctoral thesis, he defended the nation-state as the only place of democracy. His first Parliament speech, he began in Latin. At the Convention, he longed to be back into the 19th century. Century, as Europe is the “star of the world, with concerts of Brahms, the operas of Puccini and Wagner, the poetry of Rilke and Baudelaire”, a time when the “terrorist of the modern art” ’t raged yet, and no “modern architecture of our cities are scarred”.
This Old-Europe romance Baudet mixed with EU dam. A “cultural Marxist project,” grumbles he, the European Union, “focused on the Conduct of Wars”. The fight against the EU was made known Baudet, 2016, he provoked a popular vote against the agreement between the EU and Ukraine. The voters in the Referendum, the government supported signed the contract yet, what Baudet made it even more popular. He used the High, founded a party. Since then, he has staged himself as a Showbiz celebrity, the engagement with a 22-year-old photographer, he announced on Instagram.
Baudet is also for people to choose from Geert Wilders to derb held, it was said.
Before that, the son of a French-Indonesian family of musicians, wrote several books, such as “Oikophobie – hatred Of your Own”. Therein Baudet finds that the alleged European self-destruction, which lead to the decline of the Occident – a typical conservative decay Thesis. Baudet looks again and again racism accusations, because he meets with men like Jared Taylor, who claimed the Superiority of the White. Baudet says that he needs to talk as a politician with a variety of people, he is not a racist.
political analysts do not suggest the Triumph of the FVD only as an expression of the growing nationalism. Most voters snapped Baudet its direct competitor the way, the 20 years older right-wing populist Geert Wilders. Baudet is also for people to choose from Geert Wilders to derb held, it was said. And its looseness make it Younger interesting. Baudet from hunted but also for other parties votes.
experts believe to be voters ‘ potential for limited. According to a survey, only 18 percent of the Dutch want to leave the EU, actually. At the end of may can prove the shooting star, the elections are European elections.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 22.03.2019, 21:27 PM
