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It's true and it illustrates exactly why it's a rather pointless election. But to fully understand the outcome it has to be seen in the context of the time the election was held. There was a very tense atmosphere (and at times there still is) in the weeks/months after film maker Theo van Gogh was murdered. Many people saw him as a soulmate of Pim Fortuyn, another opinonated controversial figure and also murdered two years earlier. But you'd have to be even more of a "lifeless arse" to read yourself into that I guess. It will be interesting to see how historians will view the first half of this decade in our history though.
But yeah, it's a ridiculous outcome and the list on a whole really shows the lack of historical knowledge of the Dutch.
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