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5 months agoDutch voters embrace anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders, the far-right, anti-Islam populist, has achieved a massive parliamentary election victory in the Netherlands, which is one of the biggest political upsets in the country since World War II.
Wilders' party, the Party for Freedom, won 35 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, more than double what they won in the last election.
The result has the potential to send shockwaves through Europe and could put Wilders in line to become the country's first hard-right prime minister. [ more ]