"Wilders's PVV and Jetten's D66 both won 26 seats in the Dutch parliament, becoming the biggest parties by seat numbers. The former won over the latter by a slim margin of 28,400 votes, out of more than 10 million cast. PVV won about 17 percent of the vote, down from about a quarter in 2023, its second-highest election score. Experts say that far-right ideas and policies have not been sidelined in the Netherlands."
"At 38, Rob Jetten, with his confident smile and We can do it slogan, is on course to become the Netherlands's youngest prime minister. His liberal-progressive D66 party almost tripled its number of seats in parliament in the October 29 general election. list of 3 itemsend of list Dutch far-right firebrand Geert Wilders suffered significant losses in the vote, as his anti-immigration, anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) shed 11 seats, returning to the opposition after a hobbling first stint in a coalition government."
Rob Jetten, 38, leads the liberal-progressive D66 to a major gain, raising its seat count to 26 after an almost threefold increase. Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) lost 11 seats, also finishing with 26 seats and falling back into opposition, with its vote share down to about 17 percent. The Christian Democrats (CDA) increased to 18 seats. The Forum for Democracy (FvD) rose from three to seven seats. Far-right support fragmented rather than collapsed, and centrist parties recorded significant gains across the political spectrum.
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