US Edition'Populists Can Be Beaten': Dutch Centrist Rob Jetten Claims Election Win
Jetten's D66 and Wilders's PVV each won 26 seats in a 150-seat parliament; coalition talks will be complex due to fragmented party landscape and ideological divides.
- On Friday, Jetten, leader of Democrats 66 , declared victory after ANP said Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party , could not overhaul his lead, with D66 projected at 26 seats.
- After the PVV-led government's collapse, voters concerned about housing and health care shifted preferences amid a fragmented parliament, driving support toward centrist options.
- Coalition arithmetic shows a potential 86-seat majority with CDA , Green/Labour and VVD , while final ballots from Dutch expats favoured Jetten and were tallied in The Hague.
- The Dutch Electoral Council will declare the result on Friday, and Jetten will appoint a 'scout' on Tuesday to explore coalition options.
- The party system has fractured into an unpredictable delta, with the Dutch Left holding barely 20 percent of seats last week and the far-right bloc controlling about 40 seats.
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The announced victory of the centrist Rob Jetten in the Dutch parliamentary elections was confirmed on Monday 3 November after the counting of the last ballots. The whole question now is whether his party D66 will opt for a coalition with the Labour Alliance-Greens to form the next government, while the search for a coalition is a process that can last several months.
Centrist D66 party takes home win in Dutch election
A nail-biter national election in the Netherlands came down to postal votes from Dutch citizens living abroad, with the centrist D66 party eking out a win over anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom according to a final tally by...
Geert Wilders of the far right and the centrist Rob Jetten both won 26 seats, so the victory was tied to the number of votes.
In the Netherlands, all the votes of the parliamentary election are counted. The left-liberal D66 is the winner of the election. The party of the right-wing Geert Wilder is second.
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