Netherlands: Highly-educated Turks, Moroccans to vote for center-left parties

Netherlands: Highly-educated Turks, Moroccans to vote for center-left parties

In related news, the Dutch Muslim Party (NMP) announced it will participate in the parliamentary elections on June 9th. The party is participating in seven of the municipal elections this Wednesday. (NL)

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Highly-educated Moroccan and Turkish youth will vote for D66 in the local Dutch elections, followed by PvdA (Labor) and GroenLinks (Greens). Most youth think Alexander Pechtold (D66) is the most appealing politician, followed by Femke Halsema (GroenLinks).

Local parties don't attract them. "Barely 3% of the youth plan to vote for such a party," says a researcher from the Labyrinth agency in Utrecht. Labyrinth surveyed the opinion of about 200 Moroccan and Turkish youth. The great majority of them will never consider voting for PVV (Party for Freedom) and TON (Proud of the Netherlands). The SGP and ChristenUnie (both Christian parties) can also count on little support.

Half of the respondents said education was one of the most important issues. Integration and the economy will also affect their vote. Security, art and culture play almost no role.

Labyrinth conducted the study together with Stichting de Nieuwe Generatie, an association which wants to promote integration in the Netherlands.

Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)