Netherlands: PVV leading in Almere, wins in the Hague

Netherlands: PVV leading in Almere, wins in the Hague


PVV leads in Almere.  After counting the votes in 50 of the 98 polling stations, the PVV gets 22.2% of the votes.

PvdA (Labor) gets 17.3% (down from 27.5%) and the VVD 14.6% (down from 16.8%), followed by D66 (8.5%, up from 3.6%) and GroenLinks (8.1%, down from 7.4%).

A dozen Dutch women from De Schoor, a social-welfare institute, protested in front of the Almere municipality in headscarves Wednesday evening.  "If Wilders gets to power, we'll lose our subsidy".  They came together with immigrant colleagues, who wore a headscarves due to religious convictions.

In the Hague the PVV got more than expected.  After counting 28% of the votes, the PVV got 18.5%.  Sietse Fritsma, head of the local list, said "we're going to drive the established politics copletely mad."

PvdA remains the biggest party with 22% (down from 28.4%).  Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven of the PvdA said in resonse that the party cannot work with the PVV due to their points of view, "and I'm not easily driven mad," she added.

VVD got 11.3% (down from 19.8%).


If the parliamentary elections were to be held today the Christian Democrats would get 29 seats, Labor 27 and the PVV 24, according to a Synovate poll.  VVD keeps 21, D66 would get 15, GroenLinks 12 and the Socialists 11.    In a Maurice De Hond poll, the PVV got 27, Christian Democrats 26 and Labor 24.

The situation today: Christian Democrats 41, Labor 33, Socialists 25, VVD 22, PVV 9, GroenLinks 7, D66 3.

Source: Telegraaf 1, 2, 3, 4 (Dutch)

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