2023-11-22 22:42:41
The Dutch far-right party PVV, led by the 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 exit polls published at the close of the elections. electoral colleges.
If the results of the survey carried out by the research agency Ipsos are confirmed, Wilders’ victory in these elections is much larger than all the surveys published in recent days had predicted, and the PVV would double the current 17 seats it has. has as an opposition party.
If results are confirmed, Wilders’ victory is bigger than predicted
It is followed by the left-wing bloc formed by the social democrat PvdA and the green GroenLinks, led by former vice president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, which would obtain 26 seats.
Third place would go to the right-wing liberal VVD, led by the Turkish-Dutch Dilan Yeşilgöz and to which the acting Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, belongs, which would suffer an electoral blow and would be left with only 23 seats, compared to the current 34. .
In fourth place, and if the polls are confirmed, would be the newly created New Social Contract (NSC), party of the Christian Democrat Pieter Omtzigt, which would enter Parliament with 20 seats.
Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch far-right PVV party, celebrates his election victory this Wednesday
AP Photo/Patrick Post
Of the 26 parties that ran in today’s elections, 16 have achieved parliamentary representation, although, with the exception of the PVV, VVD, NSC and the Timmermans bloc, none have surpassed the 10-seat barrier.
The left-wing liberal party D66 has lost 14 seats after passing through the outgoing government coalition, and is left with 10 deputies.
The peasant party BBB obtains 7 seats, followed by Christian Democratic Call CDA, which goes from 15 to 5 seats, also after having been part of the current government.
The Socialist Party has 5, the Animal Party keeps 4, while the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD), the conservative Christian Union (CU) and the Calvinist SGP party would obtain three seats each.
Supporters of Frans Timmermans, former vice president of the European Commission, react to the election results in the Netherlands
REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
The polling stations closed at 9:00 p.m. local time and the counting of votes now begins.
The exit poll data are an indication of the electoral results based on a survey carried out by Ipsos in sixty polling stations, where citizens were asked about their vote. There is a margin of error of one seat, according to the demoscopic company.
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