Dutch far-right influencer Els Noort in The Hague, Netherlands, on September 20, 2025. JOSH WALET/ANP VIA AFP
She has kept her exact birth date a secret, though it is in either 1998 or 1999, and does not want to reveal her last name. For the past few years, thousands of people on X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook have known her as "Els PVV," "Els_FvD," and "Els Rechts." PVV refers to the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders; FvD stands for Forum for Democracy, the ultranationalist and Eurosceptic party led by Thierry Baudet; and "Rechts" signals her right-wing allegiance. Els Noort has made no secret of her political views and has thanked God for it "on my knees." She certainly is on the right ("rechts"). On the far right, even.
On September 20, the whole country discovered the young woman from South Holland. Noort was raised in a Calvinist family and was introduced to politics by her high school principal, a supporter of the Reformed Political Party (SGP), a traditionalist right-wing party that only began to admit women in 2013. Slight in stature, clad in a blue dress and a belt in the colors of the Dutch flag that day, Noort presented herself as "a girl of the people" and, with a broad smile, railed against her favorite targets: the left, immigrants, and "show-off" politicians. For a long time, Noort has called for halting the construction of refugee centers, closing Islamic schools, and has labeled her left-wing opponents as "demons."
