Geert Wilders faces shutout as centrists hail huge gains in knife-edge Dutch election

<p>Far right neck and neck with liberal D66 but all major mainstream parties have ruled out working with anti-Islam firebrand</p><p>Geert Wilders is almost certain to be shut out of the next Dutch government after a knife-edge general election in which support for his far-right Freedom party (PVV) slumped and the liberal-progressive D66 party made spectacular gains.</p><p>With 99.7% of ballots counted, the two parties were neck and neck on a projected 26 seats each in the 150-seat parliament, with D66 an estimated 15,000 votes ahead after the capital, Amsterdam, declared preliminary results on Thursday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/geert-wilders-faces-shutout-centrists-dutch-election-netherlands">Continue reading...</a>