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Dutch vote fraud claims surfaced
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders Friday posted two unsubstantiated claims of irregularities in elections in the Netherlands, minutes after rival Rob Jetten claimed a narrow victory for his D66 centrists. Local agency ANP, which tallies and publishes the ballots, earlier Friday had said Wilders and his PVV Freedom Party could not catch the D66 with only a handful of votes still to count. Wilders posted on X a screen grab of a message claiming…
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders today raised unconfirmed suspicions of irregularities in the parliamentary elections, just minutes after his rival Rob Jetten of the centrist D66 party declared a narrow victory.
The PVV has lost its position as the largest party to D66. However, party leader Rob Jetten will not present an exploratory study until next Tuesday. Geert Wilders has suggested on social media that there are problems with the vote count. We discuss the latest political developments in this News of the Day with our reporter Jeanneau van Beurden, prominent VVD member Halbe Zijlstra, and opinion maker Lale Gül.
Geert Wilders of the PVV is not yet ready to accept a D66 election victory. ‘The Electoral Council decides, not the ANP, how arrogant not to wait for that,’ he wrote on X. In another message on X, Wilders suggests that votes were rigged. Read all about the elections in our live blog.
The Dutch elections showed that the stability, clear proposals and optimism of D66 defeated the fanaticism and extreme rhetoric of Wilders. But the message is a coin with two sides.
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders said on Friday on the social network X that there were irregularities in the counting of votes in the early parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. However, he did not provide evidence for his claims, which he published after the social liberal D66 party won the elections, other than text messages from alleged witnesses to the irregularities. The report comes from AFP. Wilders in second place According to…
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