The CDU won 28.8 %; the PDS 16.8 %; and the right-wing liberal FDP party made it back into the assembly with 9.6%%.
Thanks partly to a sympathy vote, the outcome may be that his now largely leaderless party will join a coalition with the right-wing Liberal party and the centre-right Christian Democrats.
With the growth of religious extremism in mind, Mr Starr might have dwelled longer on that anti-liberal perennial.Mr Starr's main concern, however, is challenging the right-wing liberal story of what went wrong with the liberal tradition.
But Mark Rutte, leader of the right-wing liberal VVD and probable next prime minister, vowed to seek big cuts in Dutch payments to the EU and dismissed EU aid for poor regions as mostly "money recycling".
"Are you working to change mentality, or to please western audiences?" he asks, upsetting some who see Ms Hirsi Ali as a near-martyr.An ardent campaigner for the rights of Muslim women, Ms Hirsi Ali started her political career as a Dutch social-democrat, and then moved to the free-market and right-wing liberal party, the VVD.
Speaking to Moscow-based news agency Interfax, former Prime Minister Stepashin echoed the suggestion of the right-wing Liberal Democrat party that Capello and his staff should receive performance-related pay.
Wilders generally considers himself to be a right-wing liberal, with a specific mix of positions independent of the European political spectrum and particular to iconoclastic Dutch society.
The leader of the branch, Uwe Scheuch, had fallen out with BZÖ leader Josef Bucher after the latter had introduced a "moderate, right-wing liberal" and more economically oriented ideology.
Wilders, who has refused to align himself with European far-right leaders such as Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jörg Haider, views himself as a right-wing liberal and has expressed concern of being "linked with the wrong rightist fascist groups".
Call them, respectively, traditional conservatives and right-wing liberals.
The past few years have seen every possible combination of alliances between the three main political factions: the left-wing Sandinists, the right-wing Liberals and a Liberal offshoot loyal to the president, Enrique Bolaños.
