US EditionDutch general election focuses on migration and housing crisis as Wilders seeks another win
Far-right leader Geert Wilders leads polls with a pledge to halt asylum-seekers amid a housing crisis worsened by policy failures, officials said migration dropped by 19,000 last year.
- On Oct. 29, voters will decide the Dutch parliament's House of Representatives as migration and housing dominate the campaign and Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom leads polls.
- Violent protests against new asylum-seeker centres have broken out in recent months, sometimes featuring a tricolor flag linked to WWII Nazi sympathizers.
- The PVV manifesto calls for a `total halt` to asylum-seekers, a move the Dutch Order of Lawyers warns could breach treaties after Geert Wilders withdrew his lawmakers in June, collapsing the coalition.
- Many mainstream Dutch parties have ruled out forming a coalition with Geert Wilders, making it unlikely he could govern even as unrest and housing pressures persist in recent months.
- Experts warn that treating immigration as a cultural threat has boosted far-right support but may leave voters dissatisfied, Professor Léonie de Jonge said, while around 40% of migrant arrivals came from Europe.
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‘Geert Wilders’ Far-Right Retreat Leaves a Very Dutch Political Mess’
PVV party leader Geert Wilders during a D66 parliamentary group meeting after the Dutch general election. Photo: ANP/ Alamy Live NewsGeert Wilders’ PVV may have lost ground in this week’s Dutch parliamentary elections, but the truth is that, contrary to all the talk in the international media, this modest European nation has not suddenly discovered how to defeat the extreme right.In reality, these elections merely confirm that politics in the Ne…
Wilders' election losses do not herald decline of European far-right
AMSTERDAM - As he celebrated his party’s election surge, Dutch centrist leader Rob Jetten declared voters had \"turned the page\" on Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration campaigner and a leading figure of European right-wing populism for two decades. A closer look suggests otherwise. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CDA party leader Henri Bontenbal tries to attack Geert Wilders when he describes the Netherlands – again – as one big asylum seekers' center. That's the same...
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