Surinamese radio and television entertainer Sylvana Simons entering politics to contest discrimination. During an interview by Wilfred Genee. De Balie, Amsterdam, 26 Nov. 2016. Wikicommons/De Balie, Amsterdam. Some rights reserved.
Much to everyone’s surprise, it turns out that this is not the election we expected. At the start of the campaign season, with the right-wing populist Geert Wilders riding high in the polls, the prediction had been that it would come down to a race between the conservative Liberals and Geert Wilders’ populist, right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV), leaving all others in the dust.
