The recent Dutch snap election, held on October 29, 2025, highlights the deep crisis of bourgeois democracy and the political stalemate caused by capitalist rule across Europe.
As the Netherlands grapples with mounting social, economic, and geopolitical turmoil, the election outcome represents a further reshuffling of power among factions of the ruling elite.
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: Crisis of democracy in Europe.