Leader of the PVV (The Party for Freedom) Geert Wilders gives his reaction following the Dutch parliamentary election vote. Photograph: Simon Wohlfahrt/ AFP via Getty Images
Quick takes on the Netherlands’ general election this week portrayed a loss for radical right forerunner Geert Wilders and his brand of politics.
His party is set to lose 11 seats and fail in the ambition he declared when he collapsed the government this summer: to return with a bigger mandate and become prime minister.
However, Wilders’s party has come within a hair of winning the most votes and may have the same number of seats as its nearest challenger.
Most importantly, the overa
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