(Nomad, do you call "dutch" "dutch"?  It reminds me of "deutch".  Is there Nederlandisch?)

Een totaal van 79 partijen waren geregistreerd bij de Kiesraad om deel te nemen aan de verkiezingen; 26 van deze partijen is het gelukt om de nodige handtekeningen in de kiesdistricten bij elkaar te sprokkelen.

A total of 79 parties were [ge]registered with the Kiesraad and deal the new ones(?) the name(?) and the verkiezingen....  26 of these parties are very ... and the ... hand taking in in the (hand taking in - taking things in, counting votes perhaps) in the Kies district(s) with elkaar te sproskkelen.

You Nomad, and you Migeru, and dvx, Alex, all of yez with your side by side translations, broken into paragraphs...  I thank you all mucho mas.

I cannae pay you back in kind.  Well, I try, by offering Ongleesh and Inglish, but, well...[hole in ground leading to a usu. drinkable water source, dug by humans.]

Hey!  Fantastic diary, Nomad.  I hope you'll do one on what you think the left in The Netherlands is becoming.


Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.