Polls show the far right is winning the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands

The Dutch far-right party PVV, led by anti-Islamist and Eurosceptic Geert Wilders, has won the general elections held this Wednesday in the Netherlands and has 35 of the 150 seats in parliament, according to polls published at the end of the elections. Electoral colleges.

If the results of the poll by research institute Ipsos are confirmed, Wilders’ victory in these elections would be much larger than all polls published in recent days had predicted, and the PVV would double its current 17 seats to an opposition party.

This is followed by the left-wing bloc made up of the social democratic PvdA and the green GroenLinks, led by former European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, which would receive 26 seats.

Third place would go to the right-wing liberal VVD, led by Turkish-Dutch Dilan Yeşilgöz and including incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte, which would suffer an electoral blow, leaving just 23 seats compared to the current 34th.

In fourth place, if the polls are confirmed, would be the newly founded New Social Contract (NSC) party led by the Christian Democrat Pieter Omtzigt, which would enter parliament with 20 seats.

Of the 26 parties that contested today’s elections, 16 achieved parliamentary representation, although none, with the exception of the PVV, VVD, NSC and the Timmermans bloc, exceeded the 10-seat limit.

The left-liberal party D66 lost 14 seats after leaving the outgoing government coalition and remains with 10 MPs.

The farmers’ party BBB gets 7 seats, followed by the Christian Democratic Party CDA, which increases from 15 to 5 seats, also after being part of the current government.

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The Socialist Party has five, the Animal Party retains four, while the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD), the conservative Christian Union (CU) and the Calvinist SGP would each get three seats.

The polling stations closed at 9:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT) and counting of votes will now begin.

The exit poll data is indicative of the election results and is based on a survey conducted by Ipsos at 60 polling stations asking citizens about their vote. According to the polling firm, there is a one-seat margin of error.

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