Democracy Party Dept: As a result, when voters in the Netherlands go to the polls Wednesday, it looks almost certain that Mr. Rutte’s economically conservative VVD Freedom and Democracy Party will win the most seats, making him prime minister in a coalition government. Mr. Wilders, a celebrity and prime ministerial contender until a couple months ago, is poised to come in fourth, according to Globe And Mail. There is something of a financial aura surrounding Mr. Rutte after he successfully predicted, fairly early in 2008, the nature and scope of the pending debt-driven crisis and mark Rutte’s almost single-issue campaign, devoted to wrenching fiscal cutbacks and dramatic debt reduction, has unseated the campaign’s more famous single-issue conservative, anti-Islam zealot Geert Wilders, by capitalizing on a seemingly masochistic desire among many Europeans to hear straightforward bad news from political candidates about the continent’s escalating debt and currency crisis. The unlikely rise of Mr. Rutte, a 43-year-old bachelor whose party has risen from a perpetual third place to the top position despite low personal popularity ratings, is a signal of the anxiety felt in Europe over the potential for further fiscal and monetary collapse. As
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