Voting opens in Netherlands as polls suggest second Gert Wilders win

Major parties rule out coalition with rightwinger, giving his party little chance of being part of governmentVoting is under way in parliamentary elections in the Netherlands that polls suggest could again be won by the anti-immigration firebrand Geert Wilders’s Freedom party (PVV), although there is little chance of it being part of the next government.The PVV, which finished a shock first in the previous election and formed a four-party all-conservative coalition that lasted barely a year before collapsing, is marginally ahead in the polls and forecast to return between 24 and 28 MPs to the 150-seat parliament. Continue reading...

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