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Wilders’s Far-Right Party Faces Rebuke in the Netherlands

Geert Wilders suffered a loss of support as a center-left party staged major gains, an election result that could offer lessons for Europe’s far right.

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A campaign poster of Geert Wilders in The Hague on Wednesday.
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The Netherlands’ Election Is a Referendum on the Far Right

Geert Wilders and his far-right party blew up the Dutch governing coalition this year. Will that cost their party seats in Parliament?

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Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, speaking last month in Denmark. He is known for his anti-Islam and anti-immigrant stances.
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