The Netherlands' snap parliamentary election on October 29, 2025, reflects the crisis of bourgeois democracy and political stalemate in Europe.
The vote represents a power reshuffle among the ruling elite amidst social, economic, and geopolitical turmoil, rather than addressing the masses' urgent interests.
What is unfolding in the election outcome is not “a renewal of liberal democracy” but a managed reconfiguration of a ruling elite desperate to stabilise a collapsing bourgeois order.
Author's summary: Election reflects Europe's stalemate politics.