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Dutch election: Anti-Islam populist Wilders set for gains, exit poll says

A woman casts her vote during the Dutch parliamentary elections in Amsterdam on November 22, 2023 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]

Anti-Islam, far-right populist Geert Wilders, who has promised to halt all immigration to the Netherlands, is in the clear lead in parliamentary elections, an exit poll shows.

The exit poll published on Wednesday by the national broadcaster NOS projected Wilders’s Party for Freedom (PVV) would win 35 out of 150 seats, nine seats ahead of its closest rival, Frans Timmermans’ Labour Party and Green Left alliance.

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