THE HAGUE: The spectacular election breakthrough of the far-right anti-Muslim Party for Freedom shocked the Netherlands on Thursday as two mainstream parties braced for weeks of coalition haggling. The pro-business Liberal VVD party had 31 seats and the Labor party (PvdA) 30, with 99.6 percent of the vote counted after Wednesday's election. However, far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders demanded a share of government after his party came third with 24 seats, more than doubling its current nine seats in the 150-member Parliament.
Read more
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment