The Netherlands faces a snap election on Oct. 29 after far-right chief Geert Wilders pulled his party out of the government Tuesday and toppled the coalition.
Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), and the Labour-Green-Left alliance (PvdA-GL) are tightly bunched in the no-longer-hypothetical election race, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls.
The far right stormed to a shock victory in the last Dutch election back in November 2023, ushering in a right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Dick Schoof.
But Wilders — one of Europe most hard-line anti-migration politicians — brought down the coalition on Tuesday after a dispute about the government’s position on asylum.
This story is being updated.
