Geert Wilders
Source: Dutch News
The international press is concentrating its coverage of the Dutch EU elections on the loss sustained by Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV, the FD reports.
The British Daily Telegraph sees the defeat of the PVV as a surprising turn of events after earlier polls, and points out that the party lost out to pro-European parties.
Reuters headlines its article: Far right suffers Dutch surprise. It calls the loss of seats (down from five to three) ‘an unexpected defeat’ for Wilders ‘who was leading in the polls for months’.
The French newspaper Le Monde calls the result ‘a bad score for the Dutch extreme right’. The paper thinks Wilders’ chant of ‘do you want more or fewer Moroccans’ is a possible reason.
Read more: Dutch News
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