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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Corder

The Dutch go to the polls again in a snap election caused by anti-immigration lawmaker Wilders

Netherlands Election - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Less than two years after anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders led his party to a stunning victory in Dutch parliamentary elections, the Netherlands is going to the polls again.

The lawmaker, who has lived under round-the-clock protection for more than 20 years due to death threats, triggered Wednesday's snap elections in June by hauling his Party for Freedom ministers out of a fractious four-party ruling coalition in a dispute over his far-reaching plans to crack down on immigration.

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