"Remarks over Dutch Politics before Municipal Elections
(Nermin Aydemir-JTW/Netherlands) The Dutch are voting in the municipal elections on the 7th March. Parties arrange meetings, deliver posts, talk with people in the street, etc to get electoral support as usual. Nevertheless, it cannot be said that the municipal elections takes a high priority in the agenda. The issue is not more popular than the bird flue or the cartoon case nowadays. Politicians seem rather concerned on the general elections, which will be held in 2007, than the elections next week. The Hague focuses on how to close the gap between political elite and the public and is still trying to figure out the puzzle of the LPF, List of Pim Fortuyn. As it is known, the movement of the extreme rightist political leader, Pim Fortuyn, got an important political support in the general elections of 2002 in the Netherlands. 17% of the electorates voted for LPF, and the party became one of the three partners of the coalition."
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