The main centrist parties on left and right have won a
majority of seats in the Dutch parliament in an election yesterday.
The centre-right Liberals (VVD) of Prime Minister Mark Rutte
won 41 seats in the 150-seat parliament, closely followed by the centre-left
Labour (PvdA) with 39 seats.
This makes a centrist grand coalition appear the likeliest
outcome of an election that was dominated by economic issues and relations with
the European Union.
The right-wing Freedom Party of Geert Wilders (PVV) dropped
from 24 to 15 seats. Wilders had shifted the focus of his attacks from
immigrants and Islam to the EU and the eurozone bail-outs.
The Socialists of Emile Roemer, who had polled strongly over
the summer, failed to gain a single seat and remain at 15.
The Christian Democrats lost eight seats and now have just
13, followed by the centre-left, pro-EU D66, which won two seats, giving them a total of
12.
The Greens lost seven of their ten seats.
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