That's so cute. Can't you two countries merge or something?

Ah OK, I was talking about the Netherlands in particular, sorry for the confusion.

Yes. Which people consider a bit useless I think (because it's obviously not how it works), so they want to spell out the important things explicitly?

They'd fall apart within days, populists are only against things and don't have any actual practical policies they will agree on and continue to agree on.

The provincial elections are also indirect elections for the 1st chamber of Dutch parliament, which also votes on laws. So it's important.

Forum did well in the previous ones and then fell apart, like all parties that grow big too quickly they attracted too many nutters. In Forum's case doubly so because its core are complete conspiracy / neonazi nutters already.

This time "BBB" will win big, they are a conservative populist farmers interest protest party. The same thing will then happen to them.

These parties won't get actual power but the completely splintered parliament of ~20 parties makes the country almost ungovernable.

Not really, there are also just by far not enough houses.

Except that we have plenty of space. Think of the Netherlands not as a densely populated country, but as a sparsely populated city.

It's not really NIMBYism that we don't build enough, it's (extremely necessary) environmental laws and not having enough builders and building materials. Foreign builders could help if they had a place to sleep between shifts...

There is nothing in law that says that the 1st chamber does that though.

But that'd be meaningless too. Government can't do its thing without discriminating between people, or we'd all pay the exact same amount of tax and receive the exact same benefits, et cetera.