According to recent vote forecasts, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders and Rob Jetten’s centrist-liberal party D66 are running a close race in the Dutch election. The Dutch news agency ANP predicted on Thursday that both D66 and Wilders’ Freedom Party will win 26 seats in the 150-member parliament with almost 98% of the vote counted.
Jetten had led the initial exit surveys. “Millions of Dutch people have turned a page; they’ve said goodbye to a politics of negativity,” he stated to supporters. A depressing After losing 11 seats, Wilders had previously acknowledged that the outcome was not what he had hoped for, but he claimed that it was still his second-best result ever.
The race was so close that the lead switched between the two front-runners as the last few results came in on Thursday. Then, the last preliminary results came in from the capital Amsterdam and Rob Jetten’s liberals moved ahead by 15,000 votes.
Less than 17% of the national vote went to any party. Three other parties trailed closely behind, including the Christian Democrats, the left-wing GreenLeft-Labour party, and the conservative liberals with 22 seats.
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