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Dutch far-right party makes big gains at EU election, exit poll shows

Netherlands' far-right PVV Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders talks to the press in The Hague after voting in European parliamentary elections on June 6, 2024. © Nick Gammon, AFP

A final exit poll suggested Thursday that Geert Wilders’ far-right party made big gains and was in a neck and neck race with a center-left alliance in Dutch elections for the European Union parliament.

In a possible harbinger of strong electoral gains for the hard right in the Europe Union, the exit poll indicated that Wilders’ Party for Freedom had made the biggest gains — winning seven seats, up from just one in the last parliament.

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