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Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders has won a huge victory in the Dutch elections, according to a near complete count of the vote, in a stunning lurch to the far-right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance.
Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders won a huge victory in Dutch elections, according to a near complete count of the vote early Thursday, in a stunning lurch to...
Dutch election: According to an exit poll, the Dutch election did not go as expected. Far-right Gert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) supposedly got 35 out of 150 seats, 10 seats more than former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans' Labour/Green Left combination. The conservative VVD, was in third place at 24 seats. Wilders is expected to try to form a right-wing government with the VVD and the new party 'New Social Contract', who together would hold a 79-seat majority. It could prove difficult though, due to Wilders' outspoken anti-Islam stance. Wilders is explicitly anti-EU...
Wilders campaigned to ban the Quran and close the borders to migrants from Islamic countries
The anti-Islam figure’s triumph is one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since the Second World War.