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Geert is just looking for another excuse to justify any place he can get on the Dutch political spectrum. If he feels so strongly about this issue, why didn't he think of it before instead of plagerizing the Swiss? Prior to this he simply made the demands of he and his party upon the government and society, now Geert wants a referendum to decide this one particular topic. Doesn't Geert trust the traditional Dutch general electoral process anymore? This is a classic tactic of a populist party to make an emergency of an issue before a general election in which it must contest the power of the government of the day. Where and what is the urgency here? Will countless minuttes be constructed before the next general election? This is simply Geert highjacking a foreign vote to rule outside of representative government. The Swiss havemaintained a stable society through the responsible use of referenda, where as Geert desires to change the stability of the Netherlands' government into a state of hysteria.