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ER Editor: As we understand it, the D66 party, the supposed winner of the Dutch elections, is one of the centre-centre left with iffy, globalist-leaning(?) politicians in it such as Siegried Kaag. The leader of D66 is Rob Jetten.This is the party that garners the ex-pat vote abroad. The populist right, anti-immigration party of Geert Wilders is the PVV. A reminder that Mark Rutte’s globalist-oriented party was the VVD, right-establishment-globalist. There are many political parties in the Dutch system, so it is quite confusing to an outsider. Franz Timmermans, who stepped down from the EU climate portfolio to bizarrely run in the Dutch elections for the Greens (PvdA), lost.
This NL Times article is from last night, and has additional information. However, the one republished below calls into doubt the final result as of this morning —
Centrist D66 wins Dutch election, knocking far-right PVV to second, exit poll shows
A reminder that it was Wilders who forced the hand of the government over immigration to have another snap election.
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Dutch colleague Michel van der Kemp complained how Dutch elections were usually counted by midnight, but not this time. Further, he queried, how could this apparently reliable image of the poll results from Tuesday, with its converging lines, be rationally explained?
Yet another odd election result, we feel. There have been many.
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D66 and PVV are now neck and neck with most votes counted
DUTCH NEWS
After Wednesday night’s euphoria over the D66 win, with 98.6% of the votes counted, the far right PVV and the liberals are now level pegging on 26 seats each,
Support for the PVV has moved up slightly and the party is now on course to win 26 seats rather than 25, putting it on a par with D66 who have lost one and are now also poised to win 26, according to calculations by broadcaster NOS.
D66 are still ahead by a few thousand votes ahead in absolute numbers, and the figures do not include the 90,000 votes cast by Dutch expats abroad, which are still being counted. D66 traditionally does well under expat voters.
The NOS exit poll had put D66 on 27 seats in the 150 seat parliament and the PVV on 25.
The new forecast also cuts support for the right-wing liberals VVD from 23 to 22 and the Christian Democrats from 19 to 18. The gains go to the far right Forum voor Democratie, which is now on target to win seven, and the ChristenUnie which would rise from two to three.
The pro-European Volt and former coalition party NSC will disappear from the lower house while 50+ will return with one or two MPs.
Despite the shift at the top, the Netherlands is almost certain to have a liberal prime minister in 38-year-old Rob Jetten, although the political direction of a new coalition government remains very unclear.
Even if the far-right PVV wins the popular vote, all the other major parties have said they will not work with Geert Wilders in forming a new cabinet, which means Jetten will become prime minister by default.
D66 celebrated the results in Leiden. As Rob Jetten, who will marry his Argentine partner next year, bounced onto the stage, the room of 700 party supporters erupted into a chant of “het kan wel – yes we can, yes we can!” (ER: Obama, anyone?)
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The first exit poll results led to the immediate resignation of GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans following the party’s poor showing. The exit poll said the alliance is on course to win 20 seats, a loss of four compared with the 2023 election. Timmermans had made it clear before the vote that he wanted to be prime minister.
In a short speech to party supporters, he said he was very disappointed with the results and that he had not been able to convince enough people to support the GroenLinks-PvdA message.
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Wilders’ support plummets
In The Hague, PVV leader Geert Wilders, who is in line to lose 11 of the 37 seats he won at the 2023 general election, said he had hoped for a different result.
Wilders sparked the collapse of the current coalition in the summer by withdrawing his ministers in a dispute over tighter asylum rules. Since then, all the other major parties have said they will not form a coalition with him again.
He said his party had shown backbone by leaving the coalition government and that he had no regrets about doing so. He added that the refusal of many parties to form a new cabinet with the PVV may have led some supporters to vote elsewhere.
“We still have 1.7 million voters and are still a very big party in the Netherlands,” he said.
The results with 98% of the votes counted
D66 26 (9)
PVV 26 (37)
VVD 22 (24)
GL-PvdA 20 (25)
CDA 18 (5)
JA21 9 (1)
FvD 7 (3)
BBB 4 (7)
SP 3 (5)
Denk 3 (3)
PvdD 3 (3)
SGP 3 (3)
CU 2 (3)
Volt 0 (2)
50+ 2 (0)
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Featured image source: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/28/wilders-ik-had-premier-moeten-worden-a4911141
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