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LIVE WIRE Dutch Elections: High Turnout Expected, Controversy Over Turkish Mosque Polling Centre
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by BREITBART LONDON
15 Mar 2017
The Netherlands is voting to select a new government, with polls open until 2100 CET (2000 GMT, 1600 EST). Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders is “very optimistic” about his chances, while People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (concervatives, VVD) leader Mark Rutte has seen his poll ratings rise in recent days.
The Dutch election is expected to have a massive turn out with some areas reporting up to 100 percent. The election is seen as one of the most important in recent Dutch history as anti-mass migration candidate Geert Wilders hopes to build on the anti-globalist momentum of the Brexit and Trump campaigns.
made aware of the incident and went to the centre to make sure the flags and other items including leaflets for Diyanet, the Turkish government agency in charge of religion, were removed from the polling area. “Campaign expressions are not allowed in the polling station. We have sent someone there to correct it,” a spokesman from the municipality told the paper.
The controversy comes only days after Turkey and the Netherlands engaged in a large diplomatic row after the Netherlands banned two Turkish ministers from campaigning for a referendum to allow President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to abolish the office of prime minister.
Wilders said ahead of the voting this morning: “I feel very optimistic. We want to take out country back.” After casting his vote at around 9:30 am local time, Wilders remarked: “Whatever the outcome of the election today the genie will not go back into the bottle and this patriotic revolution, whether today or tomorrow, will take place.”
Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.
Turnout for the election is expected to be over 80 per cent, and potentially as high as 85 per cent. This would easily surpass 2012’s national election in which 74.6 per cent of eligible voters participated. The increased demand has led to reports that some districts have even run out of ballot papers.
Some areas have even reported turnouts of up to 100 per cent.
This election sees one of the largest numbers of parties participating ever in Dutch national elections with 28 different parties on the ballot with 15 potentially getting seats in the parliament. The main rivalry has, however, come down to the party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the PVV of Geert Wilders.
The two party leaders engaged in a debate on Monday evening with Wilders slamming Rutte, calling him a “prime minister for foreigners”. He called on the Dutch to vote for his party which looks to combat Islamisation by closing all mosques in the country and banning the Quran.
A man wearing a tee-shirt reading 'Nexit' (referring to the so-called 'Nexit' or the Dutch withdrawal from the European Union) poses during the Dutch general elections in The Hague. Photo: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images.
15/03 10:52 Warm Spring Temperatures and Blue Skies Help Voter Turnout
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Voter turnout is high in the Netherlands as the country's parliamentary elections unfold under blue skies and warm spring temperatures.
AP Images
by BREITBART LONDON
15 Mar 2017
The Netherlands is voting to select a new government, with polls open until 2100 CET (2000 GMT, 1600 EST). Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders is “very optimistic” about his chances, while People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (concervatives, VVD) leader Mark Rutte has seen his poll ratings rise in recent days.
The Dutch election is expected to have a massive turn out with some areas reporting up to 100 percent. The election is seen as one of the most important in recent Dutch history as anti-mass migration candidate Geert Wilders hopes to build on the anti-globalist momentum of the Brexit and Trump campaigns.
made aware of the incident and went to the centre to make sure the flags and other items including leaflets for Diyanet, the Turkish government agency in charge of religion, were removed from the polling area. “Campaign expressions are not allowed in the polling station. We have sent someone there to correct it,” a spokesman from the municipality told the paper.
The controversy comes only days after Turkey and the Netherlands engaged in a large diplomatic row after the Netherlands banned two Turkish ministers from campaigning for a referendum to allow President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to abolish the office of prime minister.
Wilders said ahead of the voting this morning: “I feel very optimistic. We want to take out country back.” After casting his vote at around 9:30 am local time, Wilders remarked: “Whatever the outcome of the election today the genie will not go back into the bottle and this patriotic revolution, whether today or tomorrow, will take place.”
Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.
Turnout for the election is expected to be over 80 per cent, and potentially as high as 85 per cent. This would easily surpass 2012’s national election in which 74.6 per cent of eligible voters participated. The increased demand has led to reports that some districts have even run out of ballot papers.
Some areas have even reported turnouts of up to 100 per cent.
This election sees one of the largest numbers of parties participating ever in Dutch national elections with 28 different parties on the ballot with 15 potentially getting seats in the parliament. The main rivalry has, however, come down to the party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the PVV of Geert Wilders.
The two party leaders engaged in a debate on Monday evening with Wilders slamming Rutte, calling him a “prime minister for foreigners”. He called on the Dutch to vote for his party which looks to combat Islamisation by closing all mosques in the country and banning the Quran.
A man wearing a tee-shirt reading 'Nexit' (referring to the so-called 'Nexit' or the Dutch withdrawal from the European Union) poses during the Dutch general elections in The Hague. Photo: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images.
15/03 10:52 Warm Spring Temperatures and Blue Skies Help Voter Turnout
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Voter turnout is high in the Netherlands as the country's parliamentary elections unfold under blue skies and warm spring temperatures.
