The far-right, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders has won the most votes in the Dutch election.
With 98% of the votes counted, his Freedom Party (PVV) won 37 seats out of 150, well ahead of 25 for a joint Labour/Green ticket and 24 for the conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The PVV calls for a referendum on the Netherlands leaving the European Union, a total halt to accepting asylum seekers and migrant pushbacks at the Dutch borders. It also advocates the "de-Islamisation" of the Netherlands.
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