"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny," King, 67, tweeted Sunday, referring to Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders.
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That means Wilders won't be in government as Rutte has already stated there is no chance of a coalition with Wilders.
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On Monday night, Rutte and Wilders went head to head for the first time in the campaign, Wilders having cancelled all previous debate appearances.
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Dutch politician Geert Wilders kicks off election campaign with anti-immigrant message Dutch politician Geert Wilders kicks off election campaign with anti-immigrant message With his uncompromising language about immigration and Islam, Geert Wilders has been stirring up Dutch politics for several years now.
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Wilders by Brenda Cooper The first installment of the new Project Earth series, Wilders follows Coryn Williams, who grew up in the megacity of Seacouver.
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"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny," he tweeted, referring to Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders, who has promised to "de-Islamise" the Netherlands.
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MORE: Dutch journalist breaks down the Dutch election Wilders' precursor Geert Wilders is a bit of an enigma to those who have traveled to the Netherlands.
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"The reason Wilders ended in second place has to do with Trump," he said, noting that there were other factors, like Mr. Wilders missing early debates.
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The Netherlands is embracing anti-immigrant, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders The Netherlands is embracing anti-immigrant, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders This segment originally aired Feb.
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While Wilders and Trump really are very different people, Wilders happily rooted for Trump, and, after [Trump's] victory, branded himself as a similar outsider who would upset the establishment.
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" A smiling Wilders responded, "We'll take care of that.
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" He has associated himself with the notoriously far-right and anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders, once tweeting a photo of himself with Wilders, saying, "Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end.
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Geert Wilders may have lost the election, but he left Dutch politics in a mess Geert Wilders may have lost the election, but he left Dutch politics in a mess The failure of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders to deliver on the hype has drawn a sigh of relief from supporters of the Netherlands' liberal tradition.
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Other Dutch politicians, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte, have ruled out working with Mr. Wilders and his Freedom Party, which most likely means that Mr. Wilders will not be the next prime minister.
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And according to Trevor Noah, the Netherlands has Geert Wilders.
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VICE: Are you relieved that Wilders didn't win the election?
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Wilders also ardently defends the rights of gays and lesbians.
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I do not agree with the views of Mr. Wilders.
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"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are destiny," King tweeted.
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During the cyberattack, Wilders' face was replaced with a monkey.
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Populist Geert Wilders fails to live up to hype in Dutch elections Populist Geert Wilders fails to live up to hype in Dutch elections Updated 22012/863/286 to reflect the latest election results.
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The momentum of far-right populist Geert Wilders has been slipping.
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Wilders had been trying to link his campaign with Trump's victory.
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" Mr Wilders smiled and said, softly: "We'll take care of that.
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"There is no future any more (for the EU)," Wilders said.
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Geert Wilders was swiftly defeated in the Dutch election in March.
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The Dutch anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilders attended the Republican convention.
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Wilders did, however, have a notable effect on mainstream Dutch politics.
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Wilders criticized the decision as an invasion of his private life.
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In 2016, Wilders secured an invitation to the Republican National Convention.
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Like Wilders, 50Plus aims to lower the retirement age to 65.
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This weekend Wilders plans to kick off his campaign in person.
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Mr. Wilders is calling for an exit from the European Union.
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Wilders has long espoused a wide variety of anti-Islamic views.
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The campaign of Mr. Wilders, by contrast, was much more restrictive.
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At first this did indeed seem to give Wilders some momentum.
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"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny," King wrote.
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Much like other right-wing politicians, Wilders was once a fringe figure.
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However, without Wilders, the Dutch government may not have gone so far.
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But right-wing firebrand Geert Wilders picked up fewer seats than forecast.
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A second Wilders redoubt, Nissewaard, is ethnically mixed and less well-off.
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Mr Wilders and Ms Pen could not have put it better themselves.
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Geert Wilders, the populist Dutch politician, wants to eliminate hate-speech laws.
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"Islam and freedom are incompatible whatever this Jordanian bureaucrat says," Wilders said.
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Mr Wilders often exploits these tensions, calling Muslim Dutch a "fifth column".
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His Forum for Democracy has vaulted past Mr Wilders in the polls.
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Some believe that Wilders' support will always have a ceiling among voters.
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During his speech, Wilders categorized Trump as part of this overall movement.
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He was not a member of Wilders' physical protection team, Akerboom said.
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" King then added: "Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
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In the Netherlands Geert Wilders is polling far ahead of any rival.
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The Afghan Taliban statement was issued shortly before Wilders canceled the contest.
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He has also expressed support for far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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Zouhair: In part, but a lot of people still voted for Wilders.
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Wilders was quick to respond to the prime minister's message on Monday.
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Such interviews are rare and Wilders has not committed to any more.
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What is new is the favorable ecosystem in which Wilders now moves.
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"I wouldn't rule out that Wilders could be prime minister," he added.
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"[Geert] Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny," Iowa Rep.
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Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders advocated strongly for the new law.
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"This concerns me and raises the question whether you are the right person to judge me," Wilders said, adding that the award winner "has helped organize a large anti-Wilders protest... and represents everything I fight against politically".
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Though Mr Wilders disappointed on election day, he remains more than an irritant.
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Mr Wilders and Ms Le Pen could not have put it better themselves.
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Crucially, Mr Wilders took aim not at Islam, but at an ethnic group.
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Mr Wilders seems aware that the trial could help him arrest the slide.
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This year he may vote for Mr Wilders or for Mr Baudet's FvD.
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Wilders condemns Moroccans for being over-represented in Dutch crime and welfare statistics.
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The format has even been copied by far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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Dutch anti-EU prime ministerial candidate Geert Wilders is doing better than expected.
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U., anti-Muslim Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders has a strong following.
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"Geert Wilders speaking now before Members of Congress & national security experts," he tweeted.
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Ideologically and organizationally Wilders is perhaps closer to Trump than to Le Pen.
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"The Dutch have not benefited from economic growth," Wilders said in a statement.
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We'd joke about what the country under Wilders would look like, for example.
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Wilders, who heads the Freedom Party, is often dubbed the Dutch Donald Trump.
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Wilders heads a one-man political party, the Freedom Party (Dutch acronym PVV).
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"I hope that Donald J. Trump wins the election," Wilders told the crowd.
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But Wilders may have also helped influence the conversation beyond the Netherlands' borders.
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Wendy Jansma, a 29 year-old healthcare student, was considering voting for Wilders.
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Another case in point is Geert Wilders, the xenophobic far-right Dutch politician.
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Wilders is a Dutch politician and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom.
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None will receive compensation from Mr. Wilders in the case, the panel ruled.
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But in the Netherlands (anti-EU party leader Geert) Wilders lost in March.
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I would never have thought that I would seriously consider voting for Wilders.
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Wilders' decline in the polls started a couple of weeks into Trump's presidency.
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" But, she cautioned: "People who vote for Wilders may not talk about it.
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But without a coalition with another party, Wilders will be unable to govern.
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Bot, like many others, has been drawn by Klaver's strident opposition to Wilders.
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Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing Party for Freedom, said Saturday that the contest was back on after cancelling another one last August following the arrest of a man police said had threatened to kill Wilders, according to Reuters.
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More important, the other parties stopped Mr Wilders partly by moving in his direction.
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Wilders' lawyer said the verdict had been a "fatal blow" to freedom of speech.
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Almost all major parties have ruled out being in government, with Wilders' PVV party.
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Wilders has helped spread the populism wave strengthened by the U.K.&aposs Brexit vote.
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The other parties don't do as much and you see Wilders is standing up.
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Wilders' campaign slogan, "The Netherlands Ours Again", plays to traditional Dutch patriotism and nostalgia.
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In any case, the prosecution of Mr Wilders will not hurt his electoral chances.
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I even went to a party Wilders was at on Wednesday night, pictured above.
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"Freedom of speech is threatened, especially for Islam critics," Wilders said in a statement.
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Amid the day's diplomatic wreckage, one person who celebrated the outcome was Mr Wilders.
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Wilders tweeted he hoped the GOP front-runner would be the next U.S. president.
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Wilders has dominated the campaign trail with anti-European Union and anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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"I hope that Donald J. Trump wins the election," Wilders said, to massive applause.
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The trial came after Wilders publicly called for less Moroccan immigration to the Netherlands.
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I read an article where Wilders said he wasn't going to make it easy.
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Moreover, neither Le Pen nor the Dutch extremist Geert Wilders are going to disappear.
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After van Gogh's murder, Hirsi Ali and Wilders were given 23/22 police protection.
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With Wilders, he needs only one piece of paper for all of his policies.
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" King tweeted on Sunday that "Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
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Mr. Wilders has continued to focus on arousing voter anger over issues involving Muslims.
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Not so long ago, Mr. Wilders would have been regarded as pretty zany himself.
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The prosecution's demand is likely be dismissed by opponents of Wilders as too light.
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If elected, Mr. Wilders has promised to remove the Netherlands from the European Union.
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For legal purposes, Mr. Wilders is the sole member of his Party for Freedom.
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People like Geert Wilders and Donald Trump are partly right when they say this.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The secretary general of France's far-right National Front party on Thursday said he was encouraged by gains for anti-Islam and anti-EU politician Geert Wilders in the Dutch election, saying it was a "success" even though Wilders lost.
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Concerned lawmakers say Wilders' charisma and controversy are pulling other parties to the right. 4.
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Firebrand far-right politician Geert Wilders had pushed for the ban for over a decade.
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"Look at the Islamization of our country," Wilders said recently in Spijkenisse, just outside Rotterdam.
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In other words, Dutch politics as usual—just what Mr Wilders and his followers despise.
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They say no Dutch party will work with Geert Wilders Freedom Party if it wins.
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Nevertheless, Wednesday's result sees Wilders' party shift up from third place in the previous election.
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Wilders had planned to hold the contest in his party's offices in the parliament building.
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The party, led by anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders, is known for its nationalist views.
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" Even more ecstatic was Mr. Wilders, leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party. "Congratulations!
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During the March 19 appearance, Mr. Wilders acknowledged that his comments could lead to prosecution.
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Hirsi Ali eventually left Holland; Wilders has lived under round-the-clock surveillance ever since.
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Mr. Wilders said he hoped the Czech capital would keep its doors closed to migrants.
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"He named Wilders, but did not say anything about the cartoon competition," a statement said.
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As other politicians traverse the country, Wilders has yet to hit the campaign trail himself.
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What message does Geert Wilders, a far-right politician in the Netherlands, communicate about Islam?
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"It starts with a burqa ban, it ends with Wilders as prime minister," she says.
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Wilders, in the fragmented Dutch parliamentary system, has no viable route to becoming prime minister.
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Mr. Wilders argued that the Quran must be banned and mosques must be shut down.
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We are waiting for Geert Wilders to become the next prime minister of the Netherlands.
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Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch icon, lives under police protection because of death threats.
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But in the Netherlands, the decisive support for Wilders isn't just coming from right-wingers.
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That has helped fuel nativist campaigns like the one by the Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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For all the frenzy surrounding Wilders, it is unlikely he will lead the next government.
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Second, even if Wilders' party wins, it will have a hard time finding allies in parliament.
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Wilders' rhetoric brings scorn from the Dutch establishment, but is an incontrovertible truth to Ronald Sørensen.
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"Last year the wind began to turn," said Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party.
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A separate panel of judges will now consider Wilders&apos request before the case can continue.
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Wilders plans to display the cartoons on the walls of his political party's room in parliament.
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Eurosceptic strains found a vessel in Geert Wilders, a platinum-haired race-baiter who urged "Nexit".
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In the Netherlands, Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) started soaring in the polls after Trump's election.
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Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right politician, predicted that Le Pen would bounce back in 2022.
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Geert Wilders, a Dutch Donald Trump (with equally striking hair), is way ahead in opinion polls.
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Wilders may win the Dutch elections but he will not be able to form a government.
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And Geert Wilders knows that, and that's part of his campaign and part of his agenda.
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But far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders welcomed the ruling, which his party (the PVV) supported.
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"Politics will never be the same," said Geert Wilders of the far-right Dutch Freedom Party.
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In March, he came under fire for tweeting in support of nationalist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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King has also found an ally in the far-right, anti-Islamic Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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And Geert Wilders knows that and that's part of his campaign and part of his agenda.
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Geert Wilders of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands lost in the country's March election.
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Although his party leads in the polls, Wilders is unlikely to be the next Prime Minister.
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"Politicians from almost all established parties are promoting our Islamization," Wilders said in a January speech.
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Mr. King tweets a selfie with Mr. Wilders in front of a portrait of Winston Churchill.
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Two polls released this week show Wilders lead has dropped by the equivalent of 5 seats.
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If elected, Wilders promised to close all the mosques and ban the sale of the Quran.
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Wilders-loving King might also go to Ellis Island for a refresher on the American idea.
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Big Turkish rallies on the eve of the Dutch election would have played into Wilders' hands.
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Mr. Wilders had to shout over the police to supporters, or usher them through the line.
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Geert Wilders, the far-right, euroskeptic Dutch populist, has signaled his opposition to the trade deal.
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It appears highly unlikely that Mr. Wilders or his party will end up leading the Netherlands.
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Last week Mr. Wilders delighted in publicly referring to "Moroccan scum" before a gaggle of reporters.
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Populist lawmaker Geert Wilders loudly questioned why the Dutch should approve a measure that benefits foreigners.
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They predicted a far stronger showing by Mr. Wilders, and missed the Brexit and Trump victories.
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Today's racists, like Wilders, believe in population management as the way to save white Christian European society.
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Wilders has made his affection for President Trump no secret -- and attended the Republican Convention in July.
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Mr Wilders has built a successful, opportunistic political career on anti-Islam statements and poorly disguised prejudice.
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Wilders argues that precisely that tolerance is threatened by Muslims, who he says practice a "totalitarian" faith.
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Two such far-right leaders, the Netherlands' Geert Wilders and Britain's Nigel Farage, went to the convention.
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Like Trump, Wilders called for stricter immigration policies in the wake of the Paris attacks last November.
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Geert Wilders of the Dutch Party for Freedom tweeted that the result was "a well deserved victory".
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This is largely read as disappointment considering that Wilders was polling first until late February this year.
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He added that he had "zero empathy" with Wilders but said he had understood his supporters' concerns.
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But despite the underwhelming result, Wilders has established himself as a strong political fixture in the Netherlands.
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In the Netherlands, Wilders is leading in all major polls before national parliamentary elections on March 15.
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Akerboom told Business News Radio that "as far as we know" Wilders' safety had not been jeopardized.
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"The Europhile elite has been defeated," crowed Geert Wilders of the Netherlands' anti-immigrant Party for Freedom.
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The government has repeatedly promised to ensure Wilders can campaign safely despite the militant threat he faces.
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In the Netherlands, anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders invited people to denounce "nuisance" immigrants in their neighborhoods.
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The results will keep the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant Wilders firmly outside of any ruling coalition government.
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Wilders fell short of expectations in his country's elections on Wednesday, although his party did gain seats.
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But speaking Thursday, Wilders warned the Dutch political establishment it has "not seen the last" of him.
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Wilders often compares it to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and has also vowed to close all mosques.
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In the Netherlands it's the rightist Geert Wilders who personifies European unease with large-scale Muslim immigration.
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"The Americans are taking their country back," Mr. Wilders, who leads the Freedom Party, wrote on Twitter.
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Mr. Wilders himself, who cheers for "freedom" while aiming to ban the Quran, is a striking example.
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In recent years, because of the apparent threats against him, Mr. Wilders has become progressively more isolated.
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Mr. Wilders, whose party leads in national polls, posted a video clip of his comments on Twitter.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the hobby that Geert Wilders engages in.
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Wilders was entirely acquitted on a count of committing hate speech, a separate charge under Dutch law.
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It goes further than Wilders, too -- this has become, over time, and quite openly, a vividly European reality.
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Although there are several examples of European populist candidates, Wilders may be the closest to the Trump model.
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Wilders is simply the latest example of a European right-wing extremist tradition with roots in interwar fascism.
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A float in Dusseldorf features Trump, Le Pen and right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders alongside Adolf Hitler.
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Until now, the politics of identity across Europe has been largely ceded to the likes of Mr Wilders.
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Brexit and Mr Trump presented them with cautionary tales almost as potent as the threat from Mr Wilders.
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His centre-right party handily defeated an insurgent campaign from the anti-immigration party led by Geert Wilders.
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Mr Wilders will take part in a final one-on-one debate with Mr Rutte, on March 13th.
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Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) has virtually no chance of forming a government, given the splintered political landscape.
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The League is allied with Marine Le Pen's French National Rally and Geert Wilders' Dutch Party for Freedom.
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" Far-right, anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders supported Trump's decision, tweeting that "Islam and freedom are incompatible.
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Wilders' chances of an outright victory next spring are projected to be remarkably low, according to political analysts.
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In the Netherlands in March, populist candidate Geert Wilders was soundly beaten by Conservative Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
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Other Dutch politicians reacted with concern, including Wilders' most vocal critic, Alexander Pechtold of the centrist D66 Party.
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" Protesters behind Wilders hold signs that say "Infidels, Know Your Limits" and "Freedom of Speech Go To Hell.
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" Bearded protesters behind Wilders wield signs reading, "Infidels, Know Your Limits" and "Freedom of Speech Go To Hell.
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But it was the Dust Bowl and the legislation that followed that very nearly undid all the Wilders.
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The directive was hard for farmers to wrap their heads around, and thousands could not, including the Wilders.
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"The beginning of the end of the E.U.," Mr. Wilders celebrated on Twitter after the results came in.
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Rutte is trailing anti-Islam politician and Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, who is leading public opinion polls.
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In response, Rutte tweeted a link to a video clip of himself categorically ruling out cooperation with Wilders.
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Anxious to dent Wilders' appeal, all main parties now call for cuts to immigration, especially of economic migrants.
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"Most parties do not seem inclined to risk repeating that experience" by teaming up with Wilders, said Bos.
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In fact, Wilders is the fourth-longest-serving member in the current parliament, currently in his 19th year.
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Unlike Trump, Wilders is also a career politician — he is, in fact, the fourth-longest-serving Dutch parliamentarian.
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King tweeted out a line straight from Wilders's playbook: Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
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Indeed, with a gain of 5 seats, Wilders now has a significant platform as the country's official opposition.
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Then Dutch voters denied the populist nationalist Geert Wilders a first-place finish in parliamentary elections in March.
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In the Netherlands, the anti-immigration candidate, Geert Wilders, fell short in his bid to be prime minister.
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The party is led by Geert Wilders, a populist firebrand who is known for extreme anti-Islam positions.
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As prosecutors spoke, lawmakers in Wilders' far-right Freedom Party walked onto the floor of parliament to protest.
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In a televised incident on March 19, 2014, Wilders asked supporters whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans.
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Ik had nooit gedacht dat ik serieus zou overwegen om op Wilders te stemmen, maar dat doe ik.
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In a post on Twitter late on Saturday, Wilders called on people to send in their Mohammad cartoons.
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He tweeted a cartoon of Wilders plugging a hole in a wall that read "Western civilization" in March.
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Over the course of this trial — which Wilders called a politically motivated "charade" — the party's popularity has increased.
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Geert Wilders' anti-immigration Freedom Party fell to 4%, its worst showing since it was established in 2006.
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He said that Wilders' approach to economic policy is more open, while Le Pen takes a more protectionist approach.
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But because centrist parties rule out any alliance with Wilders, he will probably end up in the opposition again.
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Back in 2009, Kyl invited Wilders, a Dutch parliamentarian accused of Islamophobia, to screen a documentary on Capitol Hill.
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Mr Wilders has also put forward legitimate arguments about the welfare of working-class Dutch left behind by globalisation.
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That may yet happen, but Mr Wilders, who led the polls for much of last year, has been sliding.
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And Mr Wilders is unlikely to enter government: every other big party has ruled out a coalition with him.
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Wilders' Freedom Party is the leading opposition party in parliament after coming in second place in elections last March.
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Wilders said last month that if elected he would close all mosques and ban the Quran and Muslim immigrants.
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Fortuyn was assassinated by a far-left activist that year but was succeeded by another charismatic populist, Geert Wilders.
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While not precisely accurate, the most recent polls did predict a win for Rutte and second place for Wilders.
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Trump, in other words, is America's Le Pen of France, its Haider of Austria, its Wilders of the Netherlands.
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Rutte tacked further to the right in this election, attempting to hold on to voters Wilders was siphoning off.
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And opposition politicians like Le Pen and Wilders have gained a stronger platform from which to promote their messages.
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Soon enough, much as Laura dreaded leaving her family, the Wilders decided they had to try their luck elsewhere.
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Hs party is trailing that of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders ahead of a general election on March 15.
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Politicians like Mr. Wilders appear to have learned "how effectively xenophobia and bigotry can be weaponized," Mr. Hussein said.
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Mr. Wilders was acquitted on charges of hate speech in 2011, after complaints about his fierce criticisms of Islam.
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In fact, the looming figure cut by Wilders transformed the country's typically low-profile election into an international spectacle.
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With the two frontrunning parties in a virtual dead heat, Rutte said Wilders could still pull off a victory.
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I've argued, at length, that Trump and European far-rightists like Petry and Wilders share a common political strategy.
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" Best: Geert Wilders, The Netherlands: "Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.
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The leaked data showed the party of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders was getting the highest number of matches.
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He drew support from right-wing politicians in Europe, like Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom.
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As Wilders rises in the polls, the PM has shifted to the right and started to adopt similar rhetoric.
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He was assassinated by a far-left activist that year but was succeeded by another charismatic populist, Geert Wilders.
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The PM looks set to hold 2500 seats, well ahead of 2014 projected for Wilders' Party for Freedom. 4.
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And on Wednesday, one of the principal advocates of this vision, the Netherlands' Geert Wilders, is standing for election.
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He promotes white nationalists like Geert Wilders of Holland, warning that America is losing its culture to foreign babies.
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Sweeney confronted Wilders on his position on Muslims and at one point asked him if he was a fascist.
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"I only asked a question that half of the Netherlands would answer with 'Yes'," Wilders told the appeals court.
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Milan Schreuer, who covered the Dutch election for The Times, found the Wilders campaign very open late last year.
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"History has perhaps taught Mr. Wilders and his ilk how effectively xenophobia and bigotry can be weaponized," he said.
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"The Netherlands belongs to all of us, everyone who does their best" Asscher told Wilders, to applause from onlookers.
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Although Wilders has never been in power, his anti-Islam, anti-EU policies have won him widespread public support.
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It was against this backdrop that Mr. Wilders formed his own party and began to find a wider audience.
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All eyes are on the far-right party of Geert Wilders, a provocateur who wants to ban the Quran.
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Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders was convicted on Friday of inciting discrimination, but no penalty was handed down.
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"There is only one Islam, and that Islam has no place in a free society," Wilders told the crowd.
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The populist party of Mr. Wilders, who likens himself to Donald J. Trump, came second in recent Dutch elections.
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At the time, that election was hailed across Europe as a rejection of anti-immigrant populists such as Geert Wilders.
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Wilders has called for the borders to be closed to immigrants from Muslim countries and mosques to be shut down.
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But people who voted for Wilders also show how much the idea of the cosmopolitan old continent is under threat.
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Anger at pro-EU metropolitan political elites over years of liberal immigration policy is a major driver of Wilders' appeal.
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Wilders plans to hold the contest and display the cartoons on the walls of his political party's room in parliament.
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Wilders' own popularity took off after the 2004 murder of anti-Muslim filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamist militant.
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Recognizing the political capital Wilders has made from such resentment, mainstream party leaders have begun aping some of his themes.
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Before the election Mr Wilders told an interviewer that by tugging other parties in his direction, he had already won.
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By the same token, the fact that Mr Wilders did not win does not translate on to Ms Le Pen.
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In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders pioneered the use of outrageous tweets that infuriate his opponents and fire up his followers.
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The current case concerns a speech Mr Wilders gave at the end of the campaign for regional elections in 2014.
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"Only that blasphemer (Wilders) is my target," a man said in the video, which was shown on national broadcaster NOS.
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" Reacting to Zeid's speech, Wilders in a text message to AFP retorted that the Jordanian prince was "an utter fool.
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While Prime Minister Mark Rutte won re-election, the focus of the election was on the populist candidate Geert Wilders.
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By all accounts, Wilders is the Trump of the Netherlands — from his anti-Muslim sentiment to his bizarre hair style.
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Wilders and Belgian anti-immigrant politician Filip Dewinter had planned to tour the Molenbeek neighborhood just after Friday Muslim prayers.
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AS became a political issue in the Netherlands, as the far-right party of Geert Wilders stirs up nationalist sentiment.
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Instead Mr Wilders took to Twitter to espouse more of the anti-Muslim views that had landed him in trouble.
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Rather than leading a revolution, Mr Baudet may simply be replacing Mr Wilders as the Netherlands' main right-wing populist.
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And the Dutch election did not see a breakthrough for Geert Wilders -- he won a mere 13% of the votes.
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Wilders said he had not achieved the electoral victory he had hoped for and was ready to offer tough opposition.
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Wilders struck the night's tone by offering a cautionary tale of "Eurabia": Europe in the throes of unchecked Muslim migration.
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Fortuyn was assassinated in 2002, but Wilders took his place, actually winning a number of seats in the Dutch parliament.
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In March, the Netherlands held a general election where incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte defeated anti-EU politician Geert Wilders.
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They may be wary of Moroccan immigrants, but they are not usually prepared to call them, as Wilders did, "scum".
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"These are very alarming initial reports, and they must be terrible for Wilders to hear," he said in a tweet.
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Already, Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders has been out saying that next the eternally Eurosceptic Dutch deserve their turn.
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All major parties contesting the vote, including Rutte's trailing Liberals, have ruled out taking part in a coalition with Wilders.
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Earlier this week, Dutch police arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of threatening to attack Wilders over his plan.
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The anti-Islam Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders won just 19 seats in the 150-seat house of representatives.
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Mr. Wilders, 53, is charged with offending members of a group based on their race, and hate speech and discrimination.
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DESTABILISING POST-ELECTION SCRAMBLE A future Wilders-free coalition may need to accommodate up to a half dozen mainstream parties.
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Wilders initially forecast "revolt" among his followers if he won the popular vote only to be locked out of government.
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The PVV is literally a one-man party, Wilders is the only official member, and he's beholden to no one.
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I don't just mean Trump, but also Marine Le Pen in France or Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, for example.
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This documentary, directed by Nick Hampson and Stephen Robert Morse, compares the two politicians through a portrait of Mr. Wilders.
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Wilders was born in 22014 in Venlo, a largely Catholic town in the southeastern region of the Netherlands, near Germany.
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As my colleague Zack Beauchamp wrote at the time, Wilders spoke at a party hosted by internet instigator Milo Yiannopoulos.
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She changed the National Front from a traditional far-right party to a Geert Wilders–like pro-liberal democracy party.
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With his uncompromising language about immigration and Islam, Geert Wilders has been stirring up Dutch politics for several years now.
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The film I directed and produced, "EuroTrump," provides insights into the tactics of Geert Wilders, the right-wing Dutch politician.
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" Goldberg added Wilders — who supports barring Muslim immigration to the Netherlands — is "another really racist, horrifying, right-wing crazy crazy.
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The Netherlands used to be a very religious country; Mr. Fortuyn, like Mr. Wilders, grew up as a Roman Catholic.
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It's telling that Mr. Wilders hails from Limburg, a largely Catholic province in the southern hinterlands, bordering Belgium and Germany.
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Wilders called the verdict "madness," and vowed to continue to "speak the truth about the Moroccan problem" in the Netherlands.
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It won this widespread support because of, not despite, the kind of provocative rhetoric that landed Wilders in legal trouble.
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Klaver has gone the other way, and believes the Greens can win big by forcefully rejecting Wilders' harsh nationalist agenda.
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Wilders called for a Dutch referendum on EU membership last year immediately after the United Kingdom voted to leave the union.
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Dedicated forums for far-right candidates Geert Wilders (the Netherlands), Marine Le Pen (France) and Norbert Hofer (Austria) are in overdrive.
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Yet a third of its voters are likely to back anti-immigrant nationalist Geert Wilders in the March 15 general election.
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Dutch politician Geert Wilders is facing charges of insulting a group of people based on race, and inciting discrimination and hatred.
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The polls put Mr Wilders in the lead by a few percentage points (though the PVV usually underperforms on election day).
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But Mr Wilders vowed to appeal, and he responded to the verdict with an all-out attack on the Dutch judiciary.
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In a call-and-response with a crowd of PVV supporters, Mr Wilders asked whether they wanted "more or fewer Moroccans".
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" Geert Wilders, the far-right leader in the Netherlands, congratulated Mr. Orban on Twitter, calling the vote "a well deserved victory!
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Pollsters predict strong votes for protest parties such as the Socialists and the PVV of Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration populist.
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" Otto also argued that Wilders' second place and likely exclusion from the next Dutch coalition government was a "blessing in disguise.
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Turning to politics, voters in the Netherlands looked set to reject the anti-Islam and anti-EU Geert Wilders' Freedom Party.
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These events both follow the crushing defeat of populist candidate Geert Wilders in the Netherlands' prime ministerial elections earlier this month.
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The ANP News agency reported that Rutte declined comment after emerging from the meeting with Wilders and Justice Minister Stef Blok.
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"It's like a vegetarian going to work in a slaughterhouse," Wilders said of Van Klaveren's conversation, according to the Associated Press.
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Wilders has lived under 24-hour police protection since an Islamist militant's 2006 murder of fellow Islam critic Theo van Gogh.
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"The chances of a government that includes Wilders are very slim," said Hans Goslinga, political commentator for the Christian newspaper Trouw.
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Unlike Trump, who was always willing to be interviewed on TV during the campaign, Wilders hardly ever agrees to an interview.
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Mr. King invites the far-right, anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders to Washington and appears with him at the Capitol.
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Wilders appeal is likely to last throughout the parliamentary election campaign, which runs for six weeks before voting on March 15.
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Politicians across Europe, from Geert Wilders in the Netherlands to Marine Le Pen of France, had expressed support for Mr. Hofer.
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In a videotaped response to the verdict, which he did not attend in person, Wilders said: "I will never be silenced".
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But Mr. Wilders had been held back by the mathematical tyranny of parliamentary systems, not just by an anti-populist backlash.
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At one event in a suburb of Rotterdam, Mr. Wilders was ensconced in a ring of police officers, handing out fliers.
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Wilders' far-right Freedom Party is neck-and-neck with Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling conservative VVD Party in popularity polls.
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They held up a giant picture of Wilders with a red "X" over his mouth, a reference to limited free speech.
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Mr. Wilders is one of several European nationalist politicians who is appealing to disillusioned voters, embittered by immigration and economic inequality.
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"What you see is that the trial of Geert Wilders is working to his benefit," Kanne told the Times's Nina Siegel.
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Wilders' platform is a fun-house mirror of Trump and adviser Stephen Bannon's darkest views -- pushing the bar on all Muslim immigration, shuttering all mosques (Wilders calls them "Nazi temples") and asylum centers, banning the Quran and taking the Netherlands out of the European Union in a move dubbed Nexit, following Britain's ill-considered Brexit vote last year.
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Ironically, Wilders, who has gotten off comparatively easy with regard to hate or violence-promoting speech, has been extremely successful portraying himself as a victim of anti-free speech pundits: Support for the PVV has grown in recent years, and Wilders has received large donations from American right-wingers who see him as a free-speech martyr.
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Following the Brexit vote, the leader of the Dutch anti-immigrant PVV party, Geert Wilders, said the Netherlands should hold its own referendum on whether to leave the EU. Wilders' Euroskeptical party is leading opinion polls in the Netherlands, one of the six founder nations of what has become the EU, ahead of a parliamentary election expected next March.
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Today, Dutch voters, who keep a close watch on events across the pond, are said to be pulling some support from Wilders.
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But it is possible that this was part of a deliberate strategy by Wilders to influence the policy discourse of the opposition.
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But there are important differences between Le Pen and Wilders, said Adriano Bosoni, senior Europe analyst at Stratfor, a geopolitical advisory firm.
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The big stars: France's Marine Le Pen, the Netherlands' Geert Wilders and Germany's Frauke Petry, each of them contesting elections this year.
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Far-right Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders has planned the contest for later in the year, featuring caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed.
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Doing so just before the Dutch election on March 15th might have bolstered the far-right anti-EU party of Geert Wilders.
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" Wilders responded by calling Pechtold a "drama queen" on Twitter, and accused him of "standing among Palestinian flags, with friends of Hamas.
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Steve King (R-Iowa) sparked controversy on Sunday for a tweet that expressed support for the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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Wilders, who is appealing the decision, was also once banned from entering Britain, although he later sued and the decision was overturned.
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" Otto argued that "entering a coalition would demystify both Wilders and the PVV" and reveal them to be "ill-equipped for government.
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European markets closed higher on Thursday after the defeat of the populist anti-European Union candidate Geert Wilders in the Dutch election.
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Despite coming in second place, Wilders is unlikely to hold any sway in the future government due to the fragmented parliamentary system.
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The euro topped $2900.76 late Wednesday after the Dutch election gave Prime Minister Mark Rutte a victory over populist rival Geert Wilders.
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The push to free Robinson had drawn support from right-wing politicians across the globe, including Dutch MP Geert Wilders and Rep.
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Wilders came in a firm second to Rutte's Freedom and Democracy Party, which picked up 33 out of 150 seats in parliament.
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Many voters on the left were uneasy about the willingness of traditional parties to adopt parts of Wilders' extreme anti-muslim rhetoric.
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While Klaver is politically farther left than Trudeau, both reject the far-right, anti-immigration policies of populists like Wilders and Trump.
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With Le Pen conspicuously silent, it fell to National Front secretary-general Nicolas Bay to put a positive face on Wilders' showing.
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The agent who was suspended was one of a team tasked with prescreening locations where Wilders is scheduled to make public appearances.
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Wilders cited an opinion poll from Wednesday showing that more than two-thirds of respondents believed Rutte knew parliament had been misinformed.
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"This is a war," Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-winger who is gaining in his country's polls, said on Twitter on Friday.
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Wilders ran his platform on the campaign promises to "stop Islam," ban the Quran, tax the hijab, and shut down all mosques.
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Though Wilders has little chance of winning enough seats to form a government, a PVV win would send shock waves across Europe.
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Far right, anti-immigration leader Geert Wilders submitted a motion for the Netherlands to hold its own referendum on European Union membership.
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Wilders was charged with incitement and encouraging discrimination for his speech in 2014, but was given no financial penalty or jail time.
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Geert Wilders, above, is a likely contender for prime minister, and the trial seems to have improved his party's standing among voters.
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Geert Wilders, who came in second in the Dutch election in March, was sidelined in the four-party coalition that finally emerged.
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"If it wasn't for Fortuyn there wouldn't be a Wilders phenomenon," says political scientist Andrej Zaslove of Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Political analyst Dr André Krouwel, of Amsterdam's Free University, told VICE News that Wilders influence in Dutch politics will now only increase.
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King drew public outcry over the weekend when he posted a tweet in support of anti-Muslim nationalist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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The party of the populist politician Geert Wilders gained seats in Parliament in Dutch elections on Wednesday but fell short of expectations.
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" He was praising Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician who wants to close his country to Muslims, whom he calls "scum.
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Wilders, an extremely tall man with slicked-back, Trumpesque hair, gave a fiery speech denouncing the influence of Islam in his homeland.
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VICE News' Aris Roussinos traveled to the Netherlands to find out why many voters in the famously liberal Netherlands are embracing Wilders.
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Wilders also remains increasingly isolated from the public due to various threats on his life — including a death sentence from Al Qaeda.
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"Three PVV hating judges ... convict me and half of the Netherlands," Wilders tweeted after the verdict, capturing the mood of his supporters.
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Wilders has lived in safe houses under 24-hour guard since 2004 to protect him from Islamist militants who threatened to kill him.
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Wilders, who cannot easily appear in public due to threats against him by Islamists, relies heavily on Twitter to communicate with his supporters.
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Immigration has been a key theme on the campaign trail for the Netherlands presidential hopefuls and Wilders has frequently praised Trump's protectionist rhetoric.
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In February, Wilders called Moroccan immigrants "scum," despite only two months earlier having been convicted of inciting discrimination against the very same group.
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The Netherlands has Geert Wilders, with his own Trump-sized mane of silver hair and persistent calls for banning Islam from the country.
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The outspoken right-wing candidate Geert Wilders&apos party is sliding in polls but still almost neck-and-neck with Rutte&aposs party.
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In Holland, Geert Wilders and his Freedom party are surfing a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, buoyed by dissatisfaction with traditional political parties.
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This week all eyes were on Dutch elections featuring Geert Wilders, a Dutch Islamophobic ideologue (see article), just one of many European malcontents.
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The Dutch Mr Wilders, a secular-nationalist populist, demands a crackdown on Islam (in defence of gay rights) and reviles the multicultural elite.
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Wilders, who is appealing his 2016 conviction on charges of encouraging discrimination against Moroccans, said he was glad the man had been arrested.
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In the wake of the rally, thousands of citizens filed hate-speech complaints against Mr Wilders and public prosecutors took up the case.
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Much of the movement's notoriety can be attributed to its most controversial figures, like The Netherlands' Geert Wilders or France's Marine Le Pen.
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Under Mr Farage, UKIP focused on Brussels and blanched at outright Islamophobia, in contrast to the likes of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
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Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch anti-immigration Freedom Party, called the vote - which also weighed on Hungarian assets - "a bloody shame".
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The euro was also buoyed by the Dutch election which gave Prime Minister Mark Rutte a victory over far-right rival Geert Wilders.
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" Mohamed Rabbae, chairman of the moderate National Moroccan Council, called the comments racist and discriminatory, while Wilders defended them as "freedom of expression.
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Le Pen's defeat follows a showing of far-right leader Geert Wilders in the Dutch election in March that fell short of expectations.
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Jesse Klaver is a half Moroccan, half Dutch-Indonesian 30-year-old who was the most vocally opposed to Wilders in the election.
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Though Wilders has virtually no chance of winning enough seats to form a government, a PVV win would send shock waves across Europe.
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Geert Wilders, a Dutch far-right politician and harsh critic of Islam, underperformed expectations in Wednesday's Dutch election, according to initial exit polls.
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Wilders, a member of the Party for Freedom, argued during his campaign that Islam poses a threat to the people of the Netherlands.
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The first is that the nasty brand of populism represented by Mr Wilders is here to stay, and not only in the Netherlands.
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Le Pen and Wilders lost and Merkel now has a commanding lead in the opinion polls before the German Federal election in September.
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Though Mr Wilders will not win an outright majority, he may end up able to force a referendum on membership of the euro.
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Polls suggest the government may lose about half its seats while the anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) party of Geert Wilders surges.
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Rutte, who once led a minority government that excluded Wilders but relied on his support, says he will never work with him again.
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In the interview, Wilders repeated remarks he has made frequently in the past, offensive to many, comparing the Koran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf".
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Mr. Wilders, head of the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom, has also raged against Islam and demanded a ban on the Quran.
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In a Twitter post, Geert Wilders, a lawmaker who campaigns against Islam and is an opponent of the European Union, celebrated Wednesday's result.
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In addition to a signature hairstyle (the Dutchman sports a blinding, bleach blonde slick-back), Wilders and Trump share an obsession with Twitter.
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The tall blond man with King and Petry is Geert Wilders, the leader of the ironically named Dutch far-right Party for Freedom.
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A big win for its leader Geert Wilders would be seen as the beginning of, in Wilders's words, a "patriotic spring" across Europe.
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I hope the other parties stick to their promise that they won't form a majority coalition with the PVV and don't involve Wilders.
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Wilders is a former VVD politician with persuasive, divisive rhetoric and a striking blonde hairdo similar to that of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Gijs Peters, a 22-year-old Amsterdam coffee shop worker selling pre-rolled joints to Danish tourists, laughed at the prospect of Wilders.
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Robinson's cause has also been taken up by Europe's youth-focused Identitarian movement, as well as the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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Mr. Wilders has called Islam "not a religion," said the Quran was "worse than Mein Kampf," and called for the closing of mosques.
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The risk of allowing a journalist to question him was on display when Wilders agreed to meet with John Sweeney for BBC Newsnight.
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In Dutch elections, the far-right leader Geert Wilders fell significantly short of expectations, suggesting that even populists are struggling to harness populism.
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Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Wilders is unafraid to say things in the most direct, divisive, dismissive, and often disparaging and insulting of ways.
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"No Trump, No Le Pen, No Wilders" read several signs, drawing direct parallels between the New York billionaire and Europe's far-right figureheads.
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Mr. Wilders was more recently found guilty of incitement after leading an anti-Moroccan chant at a rally, though he avoided a fine.
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The featured speaker was Geert Wilders, the virulently anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant leader of the Netherlands' far-right Party for Freedom (PVV).
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Geert Wilders of the Freedom Party (PVV) took to Twitter on Monday to further stoke outrage, saying the Turkish ambassador should be expelled.
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A spokesman for Wilders' Freedom Party sent a screenshot of his account showing the ban, which was due to expire in around eight hours.
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The current prime minister, Mark Rutte, is one of those who have said categorically that he will not join a coalition with Geert Wilders.
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Wilders, much like France's more well-known populist Marine Le Pen, has won over voters through his anti-European Union and anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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But there's a curious thing about Abouteleb: He's one of the most popular politicians in the country, even, he says, among many Wilders supporters.
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How can a country so famous for its liberal politics, which allows prostitution, soft drugs, and gay marriage, also propel Wilders to the fore?
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He's rubbed shoulders with some of the most prominent anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists out there, including Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders and writer David Horowitz.
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Dutch centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte scored a resounding victory over anti-Islam and anti-EU Geert Wilders in an election on Wednesday.
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Mr Wilders has built his political career on cultivating popular resentment against immigrants, Muslims, the European Union and what he terms the "multicultural elite".
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But so far, the attempts to try Mr Wilders for his rhetoric have demonstrated that prosecuting politicians for hateful speech only deepens the wounds.
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The Netherlands: Support for Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom among 18-25-year-olds has increased from 7% in 2006 to 27% in 2016.
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The Christian Democrats (CDA), who shifted right on issues of national identity and crime in response to Mr Wilders, will be a natural partner.
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" Pechtold added that he has received online death threats from PVV supporters in the past, and feared that Wilders' tweet could have "serious consequences.
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Wilders has emerged as among the most controversial far-right leaders in Europe, and has come under criticism for his harsh anti-Islam views.
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Wilders was convicted in December 2016 but given no punishment for comments before and after 2014 municipal elections that judges deemed insulting to Moroccans.
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Rutte has previously ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition with Wilders, who was previously a member of the Liberal party until 2004.
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Wilders sauntered onto the stage, sporting a shock of hair that reminds one strongly of Donald Trump, and endorsed the GOP nominee for president.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not succumb to "fascists and racists" like Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.
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In the Netherlands this year, centrist Prime Minister Mark Rutte kept his job ahead of far-right Geert Wilders and the Party for Freedom.
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Macron's win, coupled with the loss of populist far-right candidate Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, had seemed to show the limits of populism.
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Wilders has repeatedly spoken out against Islam, and is currently awaiting the verdict in a court case where he was charged with inciting hatred.
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Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party became the second largest in the Netherlands at last year's general elections, but is not part of the government.
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Though Wilders has virtually no chance of winning enough seats to form a government, a PVV win would nevertheless send shock waves across Europe.
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One fact that could influence the outcome, Judge Steenhuis said, was that Mr. Wilders repeated the alleged offense after the first event, despite complaints.
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Fortuyn, van Gogh, and Wilders were all, in some way, responding to an increasing discomfort with the presence of Muslim immigrants in Dutch society.
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The Dutch press began reporting in 2014 that far right activist David Horowitz of Freedom Center had donated to Wilders in 2012 and 2014.
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"If you ask Wilders what he is defending, he would honestly say 'freedom,' and I think he believes it," says political scientist Andrej Zaslove.
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The guest list included Marine Le Pen, of France's National Rally (formerly the National Front), and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands' Party for Freedom.
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He has called out 'a parade of "xenophobes, populists and racists": Wilders, Farage, Orban, Le Pen, Trump and — in the same breath — Islamic State.
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In 2011, Wilders was acquitted of inciting racial hatred for calling for the Koran to be banned and for the deportation of "criminal" Moroccans.
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That election followed one in the Netherlands in March in which the openly Islamophobic and fervently Euroskeptic candidate, Geert Wilders, did worse than expected.
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Wilders' Freedom Party leads Prime Minister Mark Rutte's conservative VVD party in some polls ahead of a national parliamentary election scheduled for March 15.
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The Netherlands holds parliamentary elections in March next year, with Geert Wilders, leader of the far right Freedom Party, also ahead in the polls.
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In a parliamentary vote in the Netherlands in March, the nationalist Geert Wilders failed to come first as predicted, though he did finish second.
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But so does Mr. Rutte's primary challenger, Mr. Wilders, who has seized the crisis to portray the country's Turkish minority as alien and hostile.
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Wilders shot back that Labour policies permitting immigration had cost the country "buckets of money", with high rates of unemployment and criminality among immigrants.
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Mr. Wilders (pronounced VIL-ders) has promised to demand a "Nexit" referendum on whether the Netherlands should follow Britain's example and leave the union.
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Those in his parliamentary group are not technically members of his party, allowing Mr. Wilders to entirely control his party's platform and decision-making.
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Like many Dutch, she feels Mr. Wilders goes too far in his condemnations of Islam, but "the borders indeed have to close," she said.
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Even if his party places first in the election, questions remain about whether Mr. Wilders would be able to successfully form a governing coalition.
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The fast-rising far-right leader, Geert Wilders, is getting donations from American conservatives attracted to his anti-European Union and anti-Islam views.
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Wilders has previously advocated ending Muslim immigration from predominantly Muslim countries to the Netherlands and a ban on constructing new mosques in the nation.
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These connections come through speaking engagements and meetings between leaders such as Wilders, France's Marine Le Pen, Germany's Frauke Petry, and Britain's Nigel Farage.
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Facing an insurgent threat from the likes of Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, European governments will be wary of raising taxes or cutting benefits.
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Glaring at them across no man's land, alongside Mr Orban, stand Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islam fanatic, and Marine Le Pen, the French nationalist.
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Laura Hudson: I was struck by how complicated and genuinely loving most of the parents are towards their children despite their villainy, particularly the Wilders.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Friday convicted politician Geert Wilders of insulting a group and inciting discrimination, but it imposed no penalty on him.
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Unlike Geert Wilders, the Netherlands' other anti-immigrant populist, Mr Baudet campaigns among younger and better-educated voters, staging open forums on right-wing philosophy.
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Both far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen of France and anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders in the Netherlands tweeted their support for Hofer.
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Other parties have been somewhat less definitive about their intentions, however, Wilders' anti-EU policies stand at odds with many of the other main players.
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Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, has slipped from favor in recent days despite gaining significant support for his anti-immigration policies.
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The other parties had promised to shun Wilders and refuse to build a coalition with his party, thereby making it impossible for him to govern.
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Before that, Dutch center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte won against his opponent, the nationalist and anti-European Union candidate Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
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But European shares were upbeat following the election victory of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who defeated anti-immigration, anti-European Union rival Geert Wilders.
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Wilders is leading in opinion polls ahead of the March 15 parliamentary elections, but he is not expected to gain enough support to govern outright.
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King doubled down on his comments during an appearance on CNN's "New Day" on Monday, endorsing the views of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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He has also come under fire for tweeting support of a white nationalist candidate for Toronto mayor, and his backing of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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The Wilders among us now occupy a position so influential they have been able to elect someone of their own persuasion to the American presidency.
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Polls suggest the government may lose about half its seats at the hands of the anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) party of Geert Wilders.
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Mr. Wilders announced on Friday that he would not attend the trial, which is being held in a secure courtroom near Schiphol Airport outside Amsterdam.
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"If voters make us a strong party it will be difficult to ignore us, though they (mainstream parties) will try," Wilders told journalists on Sunday.
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Geert Wilders is a unique politician, who shares some features with Trump, others with Le Pen and Co., and a few with none at all.
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In recent years, the right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) a one-man party headed by Geert Wilders has taken a commanding lead in Dutch politics.
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Initially, Rutte did not rule out entering into a coalition with Wilders, but he has since changed his mind, hoping to further undercut PVV support.
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If you look at leaders like the Netherlands' Geert Wilders or France's Marine Le Pen, they often position themselves as defenders of secular "European" values.
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Wilders was convicted over a 2014 incident at a campaign rally when he asked supporters whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.
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In the Netherlands, polls are showing a rising tide of support for the Party for Freedom (PVV), led by the staunchly anti-Islamic Geert Wilders.
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Steenhuis said Moroccans form a clearly defined population within the Netherlands that Wilders had singled out as having less rights to reside in the Netherlands.
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Even Geert Wilders, the country's anti-Europe, anti-immigrant, anti-establishment firebrand, has kept a distance from Moscow, unlike populist leaders in France and Italy.
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Overbeek spoke to me shortly after the conservative prime minister, Mark Rutte, had published a letter revealing how far rightward Wilders has pushed the Netherlands.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that he does not support the planned contest but that he would defend Wilders' right to hold it.
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" Zeid labelled Wilders' March 2017 election platform, which calls for no Muslim immigrants, the closing of mosques and the banning of the Koran, as "grotesque.
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He said that he agreed when Mr. Wilders talked in public several times about trying to reduce the number of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands.
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Dutch voters go to the polls on Wednesday, and the far-right party of the anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is expected to fare well.
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Along with Mr. Wilders, the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has stirred up anti-Islam anger by accusing Muslims of failing to integrate.
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The country's fast-rising far-right leader, Geert Wilders, is getting help from American conservatives attracted to his anti-European Union and anti-Islam views.
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Wilders had been invited by the Society's chair, anti-immigration hard-liner Steve King, to talk about the effect Muslim immigration was having on Europe.
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Many voters on the left feel the establishment parties have acquiesced too easily to Wilders' xenophobic politics in a bid to blunt his populist appeal.
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King's an admirer of the Dutch extremist politician Geert Wilders, a candidate for prime minister whose party is on the ballot in the Netherlands' upcoming election.
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The race was seen as a barometer for the expansion of populism in Europe, and the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, came in a distant second.
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We shouldn't forget that during his campaign, Wilders didn't even try to moderate himself -- unlike Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, for example.
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Rutte will struggle to form a coalition, while his bete noir Geert Wilders, despite failing to match his own over-egged expectations, did actually make gains.
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But it is undoubtedly Fortuyn's ideology, which was born in his city of Rotterdam, and in the ideology of Livable Rotterdam, that lives on in Wilders.
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Elsewhere in Europe, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte successfully fought off a challenge from far-right leader Geert Wilders in March by talking tough on migration.
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"No more immigration from any Islamic country is exactly what we need," said Dutch far-right Party for Freedom founder and leader Geert Wilders on Twitter.
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Mr Wilders delivered his usual attack on immigrants, declaring at one point that European blondes are growing afraid to show their hair for fear of immigrants.
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Last month, Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) launched its campaign platform ahead of March elections vowing to "close mosques, Islamic schools and ban the Koran" if elected.
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"I congratulate the British people for beating the political elite in both London and Brussels and I think we can do the same," Wilders told Reuters.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will hold a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, it said on Tuesday.
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In recent years, a series of Dutch anti-Muslim populist parties have emerged, like the Freedom Party of Geert Wilders and the newer Forum for Democracy.
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Far-right Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders has planned the contest for later in the year, and caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed are to be exhibited.
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YOU would be hard-pressed to find a more unlikely supporter of Geert Wilders, an anti-immigrant Dutch politician, than Khalid Jone, a Sudanese asylum seeker.
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Few attendees danced, but many did did rush to the front of the room when Geert Wilders, founder of the Dutch Party of Freedom, began speaking.
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Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has been under 24-hour police protection for more than ten years because of his controversial deeply anti-immigrant views.
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Europe markets also focused on Dutch elections, where anti-EU firebrand candidate Geert Wilders is providing the latest test of anti-establishment and anti-EU sentiment.
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Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) received about 108,000 euros ($13,000)from the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2015, and 22,000 in 2016, the documents showed.
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Wilders, who is leading opinion polls, said if he is elected prime minister in March general elections in the Netherlands he too will call a referendum.
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" March 2017: That brings us to this weekend, when King doubled down on his support of Geert Wilders by tweeting, "Culture and demographics are our destiny.
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Mark Rutte, the liberal prime minister of the Netherlands, fended off a challenge from far-right Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders in an election in March.
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And this is not the first time that King, an early and enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump, has expressed support for Wilders and his extreme xenophobia.
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"The E.U. robs us of our money, our identity, our democracy, our sovereignty," said Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom.
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King also claimed in 2017 that white civilization was being wiped out as a result of the migrant crisis in Europe and defended his Wilders tweet.
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That is also Mr. Trump's refrain and the core message of right-wing demagogues across Europe, from Ms. Le Pen to Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
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The Netherlands' legislative election is in mid-March: Geert Wilders' Freedom Party, which advocates deporting Muslims, is still narrowly in the lead in the latest polls.
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"To be silent about it is cowardly," Mr. Wilders wrote, distracting the news media and the public from the prosecution's opening of the case in court.
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In France, that candidate is Le Pen; in the Netherlands, the populist Geert Wilders, who came in a strong second; anyone but Angela Merkel in Germany.
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Rutte's party has adopted much of Wilders' tough line on immigration to try to stop the erosion of its voting base since winning the 2012 election.
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"It looks like the Dutch people said NO to the European elite and NO to the treaty with the Ukraine," Mr. Wilders said in his post.
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During these elections, the political middle took a more radical stance on things like immigration, to make sure people would vote for them instead of Wilders.
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"Wilders is, in many respects, the intellectual dominating figure of a post-fascist, extreme right in Europe," Anton Pelinka of the Central European University told me.
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Leon Rijsdijk, a primary school teacher who is "definitely" voting PVV, is concerned that Wilders "dictatorial tendencies" will ensure he is unable to form a government.
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The result all but guarantees that policies toward immigrants and Muslims will be more restrictive, though less than if Mr. Wilders were running the Dutch government.
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Mark Bovens, a political scientist at Utrecht University, noted that Mr. Wilders and other right-wing parties, despite their gains, did not drastically cross traditional thresholds.
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But unlike other parties, the Party for Freedom has only one official member, Mr. Wilders, allowing it to avoid internal budget disclosures to a broader membership.
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Mr. Wilders, like Ms. Le Pen, has promised to hold a national referendum on membership in the union, and he favors a Dutch version of Brexit.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch prosecutors demanded on Thursday that the anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders be fined 5,000 euros ($5,400) on charges of hate speech and discrimination.
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Mr. Wilders is holding a protest today against Turkish officials' campaigning in the Netherlands for a referendum at home that would expand the Turkish president's powers.
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Radical anti-Muslim bigots in the US, often with ties to Wilders and other far-right European politicians, have latched on to this approach as well.
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Jesse Klaver, the charismatic 30-year-old GroenLinks (GreenLeft) leader, has quickly distinguished himself as the Wilders-antidote, the progressive left's bright hope in dark times.
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She said Rutte's VVD party could, in fact, form a coalition with the PVV if Wilders' party wins with at least 30 percent of the total vote.
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Yet Wilders is hardly a new face: he has been in parliament for almost two decades and was contesting his fourth election as head of the PVV.
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"No more immigration from any Islamic country is exactly what we need," said Geert Wilders, founder and leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, on Twitter.
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The race, dominated by PM Mark Rutte's centre-right party and that of anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders, is seen as a test of nationalist feeling. 2.
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His policy enables populist nationalists like UKIP's Nigel Farage, France's Marine Le Pen, Holland's Geert Wilders and Germany's AfD, who all want to bring the EU down.
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As it turned out, they did not lead to a win for Mr Wilders in the Netherlands, but they might yet for Ms Le Pen in France.
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In 2015, King tweeted a photo of himself with Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician known for his anti-Muslim views, whom he has supported numerous times since.
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In August, Wilders' Freedom Party promised a platform calling to close mosques and Islamic schools and ban the Koran if it won the Netherlands' election next March.
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Worries also surround next week's parliamentary election in the Netherlands, where the Freedom Party of nationalist, anti-EU politician Geert Wilders is currently second in the polls.
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Wilders steamed ahead in polls late last year, with his party approval rating peaking at just under 21 percent in mid-December according to Reuters' survey aggregator.
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Given that he has ruled out working with Wilders, it is likely that this could include the CDA and the D66 and one or more smaller parties.
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However, leader Jesse Klaver told CNBC: "I don't want to go into government with the VVD, " adding that he blamed Rutte's government for the rise of Wilders.
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In that same tweet, the Iowa representative gave a nod to Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician known for his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim views.
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The party's leader, Geert Wilders, has most recently made headlines for being charged guilty of hate speech for an anti-Moroccan chant made during a 2014 rally.
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With the Wilders being populists in their own right—a minority voice in America during the 1930s—Gornick compares their views to that of today's Trump followers.
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Wilders canceled all street appearances and most media appearances after an officer on his protection squad was suspended on suspicion of leaking information to Moroccan criminal gangs.
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A self-avowed admirer of Trump, Wilders said the Netherlands does not need to build a wall to keep out foreigners but should re-establish border controls.
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What the two do have in common, however, is that both Trump and Wilders are riding the coattails of movements that they played virtually no role in.
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I think it's striking that a lot of foreign media are painting this as a loss for Wilders, while the PVV still has 20 seats in parliament.
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In 2009, Wilders created his own short Islamophobic film, "Fitna," which was a mishmash of images from 9/11, the Madrid bombings, and words from the Quran.
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But though his poll numbers have slipped in the past few days, for Wilders, success is as much about conveying his message as actually ascending to office.
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The far-right Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, grew to 20 seats from 15 to become his country's second-largest party, tracking populism's continental rise.
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I came to see something sad about how it all turned out for the Ingallses and the Wilders, these two pioneer families etched onto our national consciousness.
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The election is on Wednesday, and while it was Mr. Wilders who first elevated the issue publicly, Mr. Rutte could get credit for barring the Turkish ministers.
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Voters turned out in record numbers, and the result was cheered by those hoping to stall the anti-European Union, anti-Muslim forces that Mr. Wilders symbolizes.
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Virtually all parties said they would not work with Mr. Wilders in a coalition — so toxic he remains — though his positions are likely to infuse parliamentary debate.
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Mr. Wilders, who has seemed to relish being called the "Dutch Donald Trump," has been so extreme that some appear to have thought twice about supporting him.
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The good news, says Mr. Rosenthal, is that voters in the Netherlands turned out in record numbers to defeat Geert Wilders and his far-right populist party.
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" He added, "And then you have Wilders and Rutte, the prime minister, saying, 'You don't like it here, then go away,' but these boys were born here.
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King, one of the most vocal critics of immigration in Congress, has made controversial statements in the past, including praise for far-right European politician Geert Wilders.
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Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) will contest national elections in three months time and the party currently holds a narrow lead in a nationwide poll.
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The highly divisive election campaign, in which virtually all parties defined themselves vis-à-vis Geert Wilders, has only widened the gap between the future coalition parties.
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Meanwhile, the Green Left party and the libertarian Democrats 66 have positioned their parties as clear alternatives to Mr. Wilders, putting forward strong defenses of cosmopolitan values.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday there was a real possibility that nationalist, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders could win the parliamentary election on Wednesday.
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Mr Wilders did worse than expected in the election, but his party is still big enough to force mainstream parties to contort themselves in order to form coalitions.
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Rutte's Liberal party is trying to present a tough stance on immigration, to avoid losing ground to opposition parties such as the anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders.
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Support for Wilders' Party for Freedom seems to be peeling away to the more moderate conservative Christian Democrats on one side and, curiously, to the far-left Socialists.
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Wilders and others are merely championing a right-wing, white European version of a civilization/religious clash that we had heard long before the 2016 US election campaign.
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International interest has focused on the possibility that Mr Wilders might come first, adding another populist win to last year's Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump.
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GEERT WILDERS, the Eurosceptic, anti-Muslim populist leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), has spent the past decade testing the limits of the Netherlands' tolerance for intolerance.
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A court in Amsterdam found Mr Wilders guilty of public insult and incitement to discrimination, over a speech in which he called for "fewer Moroccans" in the country.
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European stock markets gained after the Dutch election victory by Prime Minister Mark Rutte which fought off a challenge by anti-immigration, anti-European Union rival Geert Wilders.
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Before its passage, the Dutch law was championed by Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV), who has compared the Koran to "Mein Kampf".
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That could make Wilders' party the biggest in parliament, though it is still unlikely to enter government as all its mainstream rivals have vowed to ostracise the PVV.
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Wilders, 53, a former speech writer, is now hoping the populist tide elevating far-right leaders in Europe will send him to the prime minister's office on Wednesday.
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Wilders' claim to the Hillary Clinton-esque argument of winning the popular vote but not power itself is complicated by the nuances of the Dutch multi-party system.
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European stock markets gained following the election victory by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who fought off a challenge by anti-immigration, anti-European Union rival Geert Wilders.
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A Republican congressman has sparked a social media storm with a provocative tweet endorsing far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders ahead of Wednesday's general elections in the Netherlands.
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Media coverage focused on Wilders' defeat, and it largely ignored what happened to Dutch liberals: The country's mainstream left Labour Party dropped 29 seats in the parliamentary elections.
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Last month, he also canceled a promised appearance at a party leaders' debate on RTL television after the broadcaster ran an interview with his brother, a Wilders critic.
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Wilders says he doesn't hate Muslims, but does hate their religion, and has charged mainstream politicians with "refusing to define the elephant in the room, which is Islam".
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But perhaps the biggest difference is that Wilders, as much as he may want power, may, more than anything, want to exert influence — especially on the international stage.
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"I congratulate the British people for beating the political elite in both London and Brussels and I think we can do the same," Wilders told Reuters on Friday.
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But the election cycle has left Dutch politics more fragmented than ever — a reality that will benefit the right-wing extremist Wilders, who has vowed to fight on.
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The failure of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders to deliver on the hype has drawn a sigh of relief from supporters of the Netherlands' liberal tradition.
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In the Netherlands, the PVV party of the Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders lost every seat in Parliament, and Social Democrats gained the majority of that country's votes.
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"They reflect the debate we've been having about national identity over the last 10 years since Wilders first ran in 2006" as leader of the Party for Freedom.
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With a record eighty-two-per-cent voter turnout, his party won thirty-three seats out of a hundred and fifty, leaving Wilders in second place, with twenty.
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Wilders, who is leading in some polls before national parliamentary elections on March 15, said he would appeal the "totally insane" verdict and accused the court of bias.
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There was little change in relative borrowing costs after Prime Minister Mark Rutte fended off a challenge from the far-right populist Geert Wilders in the Dutch election.
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Mr. Wilders held few campaign events, and traveled with a large security contingent — a result of threats he's received, but also a bit of showmanship, Mr. Schreuer said.
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"I still cannot believe it, but I have just been convicted because I asked a question about Moroccans," Mr. Wilders said in a video that was posted online.
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Wilders faces charges of discrimination and inciting racial hatred at a rally in 2014, where he led supporters in chanting that they wanted fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.
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Prosecutors argued that Wilders had set up the scene and intentionally had his speech climax with a rhetorical question that would incite the crowd and attract media attention.
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Dutch lawmakers, already concerned about possible meddling by Moscow, are increasingly worried about the influence of American donations to Geert Wilders and his far-right Party for Freedom.
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In Mr. Trump, by contrast, European nationalists like France's Marine Le Pen, the Netherlands' Geert Wilders, Britain's Nigel Farage and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban have found encouragement.
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Mr. Wilders and Ms. Le Pen, the French far-right leader, are running strong in polls, though both are considered long shots to win control of their governments.
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Geert Wilders, who is all too often described as a bleach blond or referred to as "the Dutch Trump," did not defeat the conservative prime minister, Mark Rutte.
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The Netherlands will hold its elections on March 15, and Geert Wilders, a provocative candidate from the far right Dutch Party for Freedom, is leading in the polls.
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They are, as a result, much more willing to punish people like Wilders who pledge to "organize" a reduction in the number of Moroccans living in their country.
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Those races will follow a national election in the Netherlands in which anti-EU and anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders is polling strongly and having a visible impact.
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Trump has garnered praise from other controversial far-right leaders such as the Netherlands' Geert Wilders and Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a former National Front leader.
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The comment appeared to be directed against Salvini, who has aligned the League with France's National Front of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Freedom Party of Geert Wilders.
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Mr Wilders is warier of Mr Putin, though just as hostile to the EU. Point out parallels between Trumpism and the European hard-right, and some Republican grandees shrug.
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Questions fire off on tangents as far-ranging as his stance on Donald Trump to divestment from fossil fuels and the anti-immigrant rantings of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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In Pakistan, several thousand people gathered in the eastern city of Lahore for a demonstration organised by Tehreek-e-Labbaik, an Islamist party, to protest against Wilders' planned contest.
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From left: European far-right leaders Frauke Petry (Germany); Marine Le Pen (France); Salvini; Geert Wilders (Netherlands); Harald Vilimsky (Austria); and Marcus Pretzell (Germany) onstage in Koblenz, Germany, Jan.
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Sywert van Lienden, a former political activist now working for the mayor of Amsterdam, says he has heard even dissatisfied D66 supporters considering a protest vote for Mr Wilders.
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The Iowa congressman on Sunday posted a tweet praising Geert Wilders, a nationalist, anti-Islam politician vying to become the Netherlands' prime minister in a national election on Wednesday.
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Wilders, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Italy, expressed shock over the attack, in which a man stabbed and injured two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station.
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ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday there was a real possibility that nationalist, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders could win the parliamentary election on Wednesday.
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Dina Pardijs, European Power program coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations, has argued that losing this particular election could make Wilders a winner in the long term.
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Wilders was in a three-way tie for second on 19 seats with the Christian Democrat CDA and centrist Democrats 66, data provided by the ANP news agency showed.
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But, while Rutte averted what in the early stages of the campaign looked like a possible victory for Wilders, years of austerity pushed down his share of the vote.
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Trump's populism resembles the European far-right populism of Wilders, but it also has pushed boundaries when it comes to Latinos, women, people of African descent, and even Jews.
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The results no doubt will be seen not only as a personal blow for Wilders, but a sharp rebuke of the surging populism growing across Europe in recent years.
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That said, Rutte's center-right VVD party lost eight seats in the parliamentary election, while Wilders' party gained five and became the second-largest part in the Netherlands' parliament.
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Already, the Netherlands faces strong internal divisions, with rising nationalist sentiment having propelled far-right electoral candidate Geert Wilders to the front of the race alongside Prime Minister Rutte.
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And in the Netherlands, anti-Islam Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders also posted a picture of himself and Abascal and wrote "FELICIDADES" — Spanish for congratulations — with three thumbs-up emojis.
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Mr. Rutte may have little room for maneuver because he faces elections next year, and is under pressure from the populist, anti-immigration PVV party led by Geert Wilders.
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" King created a firestorm Sunday when he tweeted in support of anti-Muslim nationalist Dutch politician Geert Wilders, writing that he "understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
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"I am worried that politicians like Wilders are using sexual assault as a cover to bring in anti-Islamic policies," explains Judith, one of the many women marching today.
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And so they are supplanting Western civilization with Middle Eastern civilization and I say, and Geert Wilders says, Western civilization is a superior civilization — it is the first world.
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" Two days before the Dutch election, in a televised debate, Wilders railed against the "liars" and the "givers-away" who "don't allow the Netherlands to be the Netherlands anymore.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges on Friday convicted Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders of discrimination against Moroccans but levied no punishment in a ruling that could influence elections just three months away.
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That, some analysts said, helps explain why the Dutch ultimately chose to contain the populist surge led by Geert Wilders, the far-right icon, in their elections on Wednesday.
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Mr. Wilders was part of the governing coalition in 2010, but when it came to supporting austerity measures in the wake of the recession, he refused to go along.
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She has established close ties with Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of Austria's Freedom Party, and has also met with Geert Wilders, the star of the Dutch far right.
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" Mr. Wilders retorted in Dutch on Twitter: "Oh yes, and I say to all Turks in the Netherlands who agree with Erdogan, go to Turkey and never come back.
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Pledging to "make the Netherlands ours again," the Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders, at a campaign event on Saturday, described Moroccan immigrants as "scum" who endanger the country's citizens.
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This month, the Dutch gave the far-right anti-European politician Geert Wilders fewer votes than expected in a northern European country similar in its political outlook to Britain.
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Geert Wilders, de verwoede anti-immigratie leider van de Nederlandse Partij Voor de Vrijheid, of PVV, heeft een voortrekkersrol gespeeld in het immigratiedebat, en zo de centrumrechtse partijen meegesleept.
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It's been an underwhelming year for the bloc, with high-profile anti-immigration populists Wilders and Le Pen both failing to perform as expected in their respective national elections.
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Wilders' far right Party for Freedom came second in elections in March, but he was locked out of coalition talks with mainstream parties and now leads the opposition in parliament.
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A previous attempt to prosecute Wilders for anti-Islam remarks, such as likening the religion to Nazism and calling for a ban on the Koran, ended in acquittal in 2011.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch far-right politician and anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders said on Friday that Twitter had temporarily blocked his account following remarks he made about a political rival.
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While delegates applauded Le Pen, Wilders and Petry inside the conference venue, thousands of protesters outside chanted "Neo-nazis out!" and promised to continue demonstrating throughout the elections this year.
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Perhaps more than any other right-wing movement, Wilders does not spend a lot of time talking about the economy -- he is almost singularly focused on Islam, and Dutch identity.
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In 22015, he invited Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an icon of anti-Muslim extremism, to attend the Republican National Convention, where reports say he was greeted warmly by GOP stalwarts.
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Steve King, who regularly spouts openly racist and anti-Muslim views, after he advocated for racial purity and praised the anti-Muslim views of Wilders, the right-wing Dutch politician.
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Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician known for his anti-Muslim views, released a video calling Robinson's arrest "an absolute disgrace" and comparing the UK to North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
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Three months before an election, Mr Wilders can pose as a victim of an illiberal law and a politically correct elite who, he claims, are letting Islam undermine Dutch civilisation.
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But using the law to attempt to silence Mr Wilders enhances his malign influence over Dutch politics and makes it more likely that he will one day wield real power.
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Next week the Dutch parliament is scheduled to debate the possibility of eliminating the section of the law under which Mr Wilders was prosecuted, though most parties favour keeping it.
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Mr Wilders' antagonists argue that because his comments this time targeted an ethnic group, rather than a religion as in his earlier hate-speech trial, they do not deserve protection.
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Trump, Boris, and Wilders all have the same voluminous quiff, which leads him to believe that the hair on their heads are alien lifeforms that have taken over their minds.
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Cavusoglu said on Thursday he would not succumb to "fascists and racists" like Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders, who has called for a ban on Turkish rallies in the Netherlands.
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That is not the position taken by Rutte's government, which under the populist pressure of Wilders has imposed some of the toughest immigration policies in the European Union since 219.
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Euro-skeptic Geert Wilders heads up the populist Party of Freedom, which has gathered momentum among Dutch voters in this year's campaigning, capitalizing on growing nationalist and anti-Islamic sentiment.
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"Le Pen seems to be losing a bit of momentum in the polls and you see the same thing in the Netherlands (with nationalist candidate) Geert Wilders," said van Vliet.
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In the weeks before the EU election, Salvini went on the campaign trail with other prominent populists, among them Marine Le Pen of France, and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands.
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But the parallels between the US and Europe are imperfect, and right-wing candidates like Austria's Norbert Hofer and Geert Wilders in The Netherlands both fell flat in their races.
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We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies," King wrote, including a cartoon of Wilders using his finger to plug a hole in a wall that reads "Western civilization.
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Furthermore, Breitbart News, the conservative news organization formerly headed by President Trump's senior adviser Steve Bannon, has often thrown its support behind far right political leaders in Europe, including Wilders.
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On Sunday, Germany's economic minister, Sigmar Gabriel, lumped Trump in with French far-right politician Marine Le Pen and Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has made extreme remarks about Islam.
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To one group, epitomised by the likes of Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, it means blowing the EU up and replacing it with a "patriotic spring" of national sovereignty.
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Late last year, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders was found guilty of "insulting a group" under the Netherland's hate speech laws for saying he wants fewer Moroccans in the country.
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"The Americans are taking their country back," Mr. Wilders, a lawmaker who leads the Party for Freedom and who faces hate-speech charges in his home country, wrote on Twitter.
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The lawmaker, Geert Wilders, whose tirades against Islam, immigration and the European Union have made him one of the most divisive figures in Dutch politics, refused to attend the trial.
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The Netherlands' comprehensive welfare state has not prevented first Pim Fortuyn and then Geert Wilders from becoming major political forces, with the latter leading most polls for the next elections.
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The ban has long been associated with Geert Wilders, the leader of the right-wing, anti-Islam Party for Freedom, who tweeted in celebration of the new measures earlier today.
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Bolkestein recently told the New York Times that his former protégé was akin to the sorcerer's apprentice — in other words, that Wilders has lost control and has gone too far.
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Wilders, who declared in July that "I don't want more Muslims in the Netherlands and I am proud to say that," leads the third-largest bloc in the Dutch parliament.
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Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is set to win for the third time in a row, dealing a blow to populist leader Geert Wilders.
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Some of those forces have made electoral gains, including the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, whose leader, Geert Wilders, has repeatedly targeted the nation's Moroccan minority with racist language.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islam opposition leader, said on Friday that he refuses to attend his trial next week and that he sees it as politically motivated.
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It was the first time that Wilders, whose anti-Islam comments have forced him to live under 24-hour protection for a decade, has been convicted for his outspoken views.
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But he said his liberal VVD party, which is virtually tied with Wilders in opinion polls, ruled out sharing power with him unless he takes back the comments about Moroccans.
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Despite the conviction, Mr. Wilders faced no criminal penalties or fines, and voters do not seem to have been turned off by his condemnations of what he calls Islamic extremism.
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" Mr. Wilders, who supports shutting down mosques and closing the borders to asylum seekers, wrote on Twitter, "The man of open borders, asylum tsunami, mass immigration, Islamization, lies and deceit.
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King, a conservative known for making inflammatory statements, came under fire earlier in the day for the commentary he attached to a tweet about far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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Even if the Dutch refused to hand a big win to Mr. Wilders, they backed center right parties that adopted some of his positions and language in order to win.
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Geert Wilders, the virulently anti-immigrant leader of the Netherlands' Party of Freedom, or P.V.V., has led the charge on the immigration debate, drawing in parties on the mainstream right.
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Mr. Wilders vocally opposed the visit by the Turkish foreign minister in recent days, and Mr. Rutte, who is trying to maintain his narrow lead, soon took the same line.
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Like populists everywhere, Mr. Wilders promises to "take our country back" and defend Dutch identity — from Islam, of course, but also from Brussels, the administrative capital of the European Union.
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In a final debate Tuesday night, Wilders clashed with Lodewijk Asscher, whose Labour party stands to lose two-thirds of its seats in its worst defeat ever on current polling.
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There was speculation that Mr. Wilders might visit, though it seems he has distanced himself from the one place where his Indonesian heritage on his mother's side is generally known.
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The Netherlands has elections on Wednesday, and the large Muslim population there is worried by the rise of Geert Wilders, a far-right politician who wants to ban the Quran.
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In April 2015, Dutch politician Geert Wilders traveled to Washington, DC, to give a speech to the Conservative Opportunity Society, a meeting group of conservatives in the House of Representatives.
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Trump, Farage, Wilders, Le Pen - they are selling a false prospectus to the people - claiming that breaking up the EU into competing nationalist enclaves is the solution to people's problems.
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BRUSSELS – A Belgian mayor is banning Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders and Belgian anti-immigrant politician Filip Dewinter from holding a rally in the Molenbeek, a Muslim-majority Brussels neighborhood.
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Dutch populist Geert Wilders' popularity seems to be diminishing among the Netherlands electorate as his chances of an outright victory appear to be hampered by U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionist agenda.
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Kicked off last summer by Brexit, the populist wave is currently sweeping through France and the Netherlands with candidates like Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders campaigning to lead the nations.
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In Holland, one of the challengers to populist Wilders is from another outsider, Alexander Pechtold of D66: a different kind of populist who advocates for abortion, euthanasia, prostitution and marijuana use.
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"Whether Donald Trump, Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders — all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," he said.
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Image 2 of 2 BRUSSELS – Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has cancelled his "Islam Safari" through a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Brussels after a Belgian mayor banned him from entering.
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The Dutch election, with populist Geert Wilders running against incumbent Mark Rutte, is being watched as a bellwether for the spread of populism in Europe, particularly ahead of the French election.
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Sybrand van Haersma Buma leads the Christian Democratic Appeal party and recently sought to follow PVV's Geert Wilders in building on EU disillusionment, voicing aims for significant reform of the union.
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The Netherlands general election is perceived by many as a bellwether for Europe as a whole as Rutte seeks to hold off the challenge from far-right populist candidate, Geert Wilders.
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Wilders' PVV is set for 20 seats, the Christian Democratic Appeal and the centrist Democrats 66 look on track to secure 19, while the Socialist Party is expected to take 14.
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The diplomatic row comes in the run-up to the coming week's Dutch election in which the mainstream parties are under strong pressure from the far-right party of Geert Wilders.
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Next March, Dutch voters will vote for a new parliament and hence prime minister, with Geert Wilders' far-right, anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant Party for Freedom leading in some polls.
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The Wilders' anger about the New Deal was more personal—they really hated taxation, and they couldn't get help to farm their land or paint their house when they were older.
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"I will go to the Netherlands, no such obstacle can stop us... We will not succumb to fascists and racists like Wilders," Cavusoglu told reporters on the sidelines of a visit.
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Geert Wilders, the founder and leader of the nationalist Partij Voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom), came onto the scene after another far-right politician, Pim Fortuyn, was assassinated in 2002.
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The single European currency was also buoyed by a Dutch election defeat of far-right leader Geert Wilders, which eased broader fears of a populist drift in European polls this year.
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In fact, he thought it did not go far enough: The Netherlands will hold a general election in May, and the most recent polling puts Wilders and his party firmly ahead.
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We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies," King wrote in a tweet on Sunday with a cartoon depicting Wilders plugging a hole in a wall that reads "Western civilization.
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As the Wilders went on their ongoing quest for opportunity and wealth, they like many who took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1812 didn't recognize the hardships that lay ahead.
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In the 1930s, populists like the Wilders were a minority voice in America; it was rather the characters in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath who reflected the mood of the country.
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a conservative known for making inflammatory statements, came under fire Sunday for the commentary he attached to a tweet about far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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Mr. Hussein addressed some of his comments to Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim firebrand who is leading opinion polls in the Netherlands, where elections are set to be held in March.
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If that's the case, maybe he can take on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte next or nationalist Dutch Prime Minister hopeful Geert Wilders, and after that Marie Le Pen over in France.
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Joining Le Pen and Wilders will be members of the Freedom Party of Austria, Alternative for Germany, and Italy's Northern League, among other fringe parties from Belgium, Britain, Poland, and Romania.
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Because of the fractured nature of Dutch parliamentary politics which require coalition building between parties, Wilders had been unlikely to ascend to the prime minister's office regardless of the final results.
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Here, then, is a primer on Geert Wilders, the man who has put parliamentary elections in a country that rarely makes the news squarely at the center of the world's stage.
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But speaking in his first one-on-one interview of the campaign, Wilders stated that a showing of 30 seats or more (out of a 150) would force them to reconsider.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on Tuesday called for either an acquittal or a procedural delay in his appeal against a 2016 conviction for inciting discrimination against Moroccans.
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The Taliban threat was issued shortly before Wilders announced on Thursday that he was calling off the planned contest because it posed too great a threat of provoking violence against innocents.
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Mr. Trump's victory gave great encouragement to other populist, anti-immigration leaders in Europe, like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Ms. Le Pen, who have both warned about Islamic radicalism.
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Liberalism became almost a badge of national identity, so much so that Mr. Wilders uses gay rights and gender equality as sticks to beat Muslims by characterizing them as less tolerant.
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The progressive nature of modern Dutch society is one of the reasons first Pim Fortuyn and now Geert Wilders became so popular, among not just conservatives but some former leftists, too.
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Mr. Wilders is close ideologically to Marine Le Pen of France, the far-right National Front leader who is set to make it to a runoff in presidential elections this spring.
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Today Mr. Bolkestein likens Mr. Wilders to "the sorcerer's apprentice," who, the story goes, uses one of his newly learned spells to enchant a broom into washing the floor for him.
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It is an apt description of Mr. Wilders, who sometimes seems to try to outdo himself more for shock value and to grab attention than for practical effect, particularly on immigration.
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"I asked myself what I would say if a journalist asked me if Geert Wilders was welcome here," said Roel Versleijen, the president of Jocus, the association that coordinates Venlo's celebration.
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"Since the entrance of Geert Wilders into the political arena, he hasn't had any office but he has exerted influence," said Bert Bakker, a communications professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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However, the Christian Democratic Appeal party is promoting a line almost as conservative on immigration as that of Mr. Wilders, a change from its more moderate position of several years ago.
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That threat was beaten back this month in the Netherlands, where the center-right party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte won more votes than Geert Wilders, who opposes the European Union.
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Voters will choose between Mark Rutte's ruling center-left party and the party of Geert Wilders — a fiercely anti-Muslim, far-right candidate with a criminal record for inciting racial hatred.
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But Wilders tweeted on Thursday that he would not attend the rally because the U.K. Ambassador to the Netherlands, Peter Williams, told Dutch authorities Britain would not provide security for him.
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A new report from the New York Times reveals that right-wing American activists have been funneling money to Geert Wilders, the founder and leaders of the nationalist Party for Freedom.
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Part Trump, part Marine Le Pen: Geert Wilders could disrupt the Dutch election Part Trump, part Marine Le Pen: Geert Wilders could disrupt the Dutch election Still in shock over the "populist victories" of Brexit and Donald Trump in 2016, the world is zeroing in on the small country of the Netherlands as it kicks off a year of elections that, according to the most sensationalist accounts, could determine the fate of European integration if not democracy.
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The judge gave no immediate reaction to Wilders' remarks, but said she would discuss her position with the other members of the three-judge panel after the conclusion of the day's hearings.
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"Most of the PVV-voters don't actually believe that Geert Wilders will offer solutions," Jesse Klaver, leader of the Dutch Greens party, told newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad in an interview published Friday.
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Meanwhile over in the Netherlands, the Party for Freedom with leader Geert Wilders is leading the incumbent Liberal Party in the polls by 10 percent ahead of the parliamentary elections in March.
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Wilders has vowed to hold an EU referendum should he win the election on March 15 and the latest opinion polls suggest he is in the lead to secure the most votes.
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Mr. Wilders, the likely new prime minister, vows to stop unbridled immigration and to join forces with like-minded incoming leaders in France, Italy and Germany to shake up the EU's policies.
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Rotterdam, Netherlands (CNN)Born in Morocco and still a devout Muslim, Ahmed Aboutaleb is -- it would seem -- precisely the type of person that far-right leader Geert Wilders wants to kick out.
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Carla Dekker, a Wilders voter in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, a Rotterdam suburb and PVV stronghold, said she had no problem with legitimate refugees, but she opposes economic migrants who claim welfare benefits.
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In the Netherlands, the far-right party candidate Geert Wilders is currently the front-runner in a vote that will be the latest test for the antiestablishment sentiment currently sweeping the globe.
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The single European currency was earlier bolstered by a defeat in Dutch elections of far-right leader Geert Wilders, which eased broader fears of a populist drift in European polls this year.
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Wilders, whose far-right Freedom Party has become the Netherlands' second-largest and pushes anti-Islam and populist themes, plans to hold his contest in his party's office in the parliament building.
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It allowed the country's public prosecutors to go ahead with trying Mr Wilders for incitement to hatred, based on a speech he delivered in 2014 calling for "fewer Moroccans" in the country.
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Polls show Klaver's Left Greens on course to quadruple their representation to 16 seats, while Rutte's centre-right liberals shrink from 41 to somewhere around 25, not far ahead of Wilders' nationalists.
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To the authors' point, a seminal issue for Brexit proponents, as well as Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands and Austrian Norbert Hofer, has been the dangers posed by immigrants.
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What support the Catalans have found comes from friends they would rather avoid: populists like Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders, Greek anarchists (who invaded a Spanish embassy) and the odious Julian Assange.
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Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, trained his initial attack on the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, accusing him of using bigotry as a political weapon.
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Even if Wilders loses Wednesday — recent polls show him trailing his centrist opponent, Prime Minister Mark Rutte — he appears to have already swung this famously tolerant, left-wing country to the right.
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However, the rise of Geert Wilders' far-right Freedom Party also points to clear national identity concerns in the country, which are likely to play a significant role in the future government.
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Analysts CNBC spoke to agreed that Wilders' reaction to the result would equal business as usual: continuing as a noisy member of the opposition while also shying away from concrete policy commitments.
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Geert Wilders, the far right candidate this week's Dutch election, caused a furor in February when he tweeted a photoshopped image which appeared to show an opposition politician at an Islamist protest.
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It shows current PM Mark Rutte's center-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy on top, and Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom in a three-way tie for second place.
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Earlier this year, the Netherlands far-right party — led by Geert Wilders — came in second place in Dutch elections, a disappointment considering the party led most polls leading up to the election.
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Centre-right Rutte's decisive victory over anti-immigrant, eurosceptic Wilders delighted European Union leaders and others concerned about rising populism across the bloc in the wake of last year's shock Brexit vote.
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Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, who is leading opinion polls ahead of March 15 elections but does not advocate violence, has called for the borders to be closed to Muslim immigrants.
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The Dutch election result on March 15 has eased political tensions in Europe, after the party of far-right candidate Geert Wilders won a far smaller share of the vote than expected.
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"Orban has more backbone and character than all the cowards of the EU combined," Geert Wilders, chairman of the Dutch anti-Islam Party for Freedom said in a tweet in April 2017.
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Trump is a political amateur, who still as president seems uninterested in developing the skills of a good politician, whereas Wilders is a professional politician, and a very skillful one at that.
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Candidates like Marine Le Pen of the National Front in France and Geert Wilders of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands were polling ahead of their opponents in their respective countries.
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Why would Italians, with their two-decades-long love for Silvio Berlusconi, or the Dutch, where millions support the anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders, likewise reject Mr. Trump in similarly lopsided terms?
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Wilders is accused of discrimination and inciting racism in remarks made on live television in 2014 when he led a roomful of people chanting that they wanted fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.
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As the controversy entered its third day, King conceded to "Breitbart News Daily" that he would have offered more context in his original tweet of praise for nationalist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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In Amsterdam, where much of the novel takes place (Niloo has moved there with Gui), the real-life, far-right politician Geert Wilders makes several appearances, exploiting and fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment.
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Nor, a dozen years ago, would you have sensed that both Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump will be watching the Dutch election and wishing for the same result: a Wilders victory.
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Wilders' far-right Freedom Party, which has become the second largest in the Netherlands, announced the competition in June, saying it had the right to hold it under freedom of speech laws.
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If the Party for Freedom wins the most seats in the elections, Mr. Wilders could become prime minister, and he would then have to form a coalition government with other willing parties.
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In the Netherlands, the nationalist Geert Wilders, who leads polls for elections this month but is unlikely to become prime minister, said he would declare all of Turkey's ministers persona non grata.
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Wilders is accused of discrimination and inciting racism for remarks in 2014, televised live, in which he led a roomful of followers in chanting that they wanted "fewer" Moroccans in the Netherlands.
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The one time Mr. Wilders was in government, in 2010, he had an informal liaison with the mainstream conservative party's coalition, but he bolted when it wanted to cut back pension benefits.
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In his hometown, Venlo, a stone's throw from the German border, where locals speak a dialect all their own, Carnival was in full swing as Mr. Wilders opened his campaign miles away.
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Mr. Pipes has called Mr. Wilders "the most important European alive today," but has differed with him on his view of Islam, though he himself has expressed inflammatory views on the subject.
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This is a pattern with Mr. Wilders, Mr. van Dalen said: He scores well in the polls before an election, but he does not perform as well once voters cast their ballots.
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Wilders is straight, but like Fortuyn he repeatedly invokes LGBTQ rights to argue for anti-Muslim policies, including an immigration ban, prohibition of the Quran, and a tax on Muslim women's headscarves.
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" Wilders goes on to say that he is not a racist because "Morocans are not a race" before adding: "I will never be silent, you will not be able to stop me.
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Read more: Part Trump, part Marine Le Pen: Geert Wilders could disrupt the Dutch election The progressive left's big hope in the Netherlands looks like Trudeau but says he's more like Bernie
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Demonstration organizers said in a leaflet which circulated in London this week that Republican U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar and Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders were scheduled to speak at its rally.
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Long-ostracized for his extreme anti-Islam and anti-immigrant speech, Wilders has compared Islam to Nazism and promised to close all mosques and ban the sale of the Quran if elected.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch politician Geert Wilders questioned the objectivity of the judge hearing his appeal on Tuesday against a conviction last December for inciting discrimination, in a trial he said was politically motivated.
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Wilders has campaigned for the Netherlands to follow the U.K. out of the European Union and despite his impressive polling figures to date, a coalition appears inevitable given the country's fragmented political system.
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Wilders had previously been convicted of discrimination against Moroccans in December after he had been accused of inciting racial hatred at a political rally in 2015, although he did not receive any punishment.
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A win for Wilders would raise questions about the Netherlands' and EU's futures, but he and the Party of Freedom still have several obstacles to overcome if they want to achieve their goals.
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However, anti-establishment sentiment did not translate into meaningful new support for Wilders, whose attacks on Islam and the European Union invited inevitable comparisons with U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain's Brexit campaign.
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" It was the notoriously anti-Islam Wilders who spelled out the threat, as he saw it: "blonde" Europeans, he said, were in danger of becoming "strangers in their own countries" because of "islamization.
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And in the Netherlands, anti-Muslim, anti-EU party leader Geert Wilders began his election campaign on Saturday, promising to crack down on "Moroccan scum" whom he said were making the streets unsafe.
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Another reason to think that this may not be the high-water mark for populism is that Mr Wilders has shown how to drag politics in your own direction even without winning power.
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" The Dutch anti-Islam populist politician Geert Wilders also expressed his elation on Twitter, calling Trump's victory "historic" and a "revolution," and promising, "We too will give our country back to the Dutch!
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The election is mainly billed as a challenge by flamboyant anti-Islam nationalist Geert Wilders to conservative Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who has responded by campaigning on proposals for measures to curb immigration.
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"For now I will not be doing it soon again, for sure," Wilders told Reuters at the Ambrosetti conference, where he had been invited to speak on the future of the European Union.
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Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, a populist Dutch group which has been leading in the polls, failed to turn up for the first day of his trial for hate speech.
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The Dutch election last month, in which Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off a challenge from far-right rival Geert Wilders to win re-election, was also forecast as the vote drew closer.
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Sall and his cohorts were aware and worried about swelling anti-immigrant sentiment represented by Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV), but seemed loath to discuss sensitive domestic politics.
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Geert Wilders, who wants to "de-Islamicise" the Netherlands, hopes clashes between Turkish-Dutch protesters and the police, along with Ankara's accusations of Dutch "fascism", will help bolster his chances of finishing first.
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In the Netherlands, today's general elections will pit hard-line anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, in a tight race against the incumbent Prime Minister, Mark Rutte.
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The euro climbed 0.2 percent to $1.0763, riding investor relief over the Netherlands election defeat of anti-European Union candidate Geert Wilders that boosted it to a near-six-week peak on Friday.
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But the Dutch right wing, dominated for a decade by the Freedom party of Geert Wilders, has been transformed in the past two years by the rapid growth of a second populist party.
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Before the dip in the polls, other parties ruled out any coalition with Wilders, which would likely to keep him out of government, especially since he was convicted in December of inciting discrimination.
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Those seeking office, like Ms. Le Pen or Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, saw it as a hopeful sign for their own aspirations, proclaiming that a revolutionary new order was born this week.
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In his first major televised interview ahead of the election, Wilders said on Sunday that those promises would be ditched if Freedom gets 30 or more seats in the 150-seat Dutch parliament.
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The youth wing of Dijsselbloem's Labour Party, the junior party in the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, have run a poster campaign showing anti-EU populist Geert Wilders passionately kissing Putin.
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" He added, "The whole of Dutch society and the people who have made complaints on this issue, as well as Mr. Wilders, have a right to have a court verdict on this matter.
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But a "no" vote would be awkward, given that Geert Wilders, the fiercely anti-Brussels opposition politician, is again doing well in opinion polls and is neck and neck with Mr. Rutte's party.
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Before the development of anticonvulsant medication in the 23.0s, the keto diet had been used fairly effectively to treat pediatric epilepsy since it was discovered by the Mayo Clinic's R.M. Wilders in 24.0.
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" Judith goes on to point out that Wilders, like many right-wing politicians across Europe, has only ever spoken out against sexual violence "when it concerns attacks on white women by brown men.
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That doesn't mean he's been marginalized: Wilders had already successfully dragged the political conversation in the Netherlands to the right — and may have helped to do the same for the rest of Europe.
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The attack came after Wilders, a far right campaigner against Islam, canceled plans to hold a competition last week of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed and had a clear "terrorist motive", prosecutors said.
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The Dutch are poised to give the PVV a majority, though it is unclear whether the establishment parties can form a strong enough coalition to block Wilders, or the E.U. referendum he promises.
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The site was chosen to protect Mr. Wilders, who has been under constant guard because of death threats related to a long history of inflammatory comments, as well as the judge and prosecutors.
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Geert Wilders, a Dutch nationalist whose anti-Islam Dutch Freedom Party currently leads the polls for spring elections in the Netherlands, was emblematic of the confidence of the far-right at the meeting.
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Here's what you need to know to start your day in Europe: • Dutch voters turned out in record numbers with a majority rejecting the populist platform of the anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders.
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Mr. Wilders, as well as more mainstream politicians who are afraid of losing votes to the far right, like to talk about "Dutch values," but it is hard to know what they are.
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On one side was Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician and anti-Islam campaigner whose ascendance to power was, I'm happy to say, checked by the elections in the Netherlands this month.
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When Mr. Wilders briefly campaigned in the town of Valkenburg, "it was really abnormal, police everywhere, a helicopter flying circles over the center," said Anna van Meersen, a shop attendant in the town.
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Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders called on European countries to adopt Trump-style Muslim travel bans and to build border walls to reduce Muslim immigration at a far-right conference this weekend.
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Recently, the Dutch parliament voted for a partial ban on the burka, seen widely as an attempt to undercut support for Wilders (he responded in a tweet by calling for a complete ban).
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Wilders repeated his demand that the Turkish ambassador be expelled, and infused his hard-right nationalistic politics into the issue, saying that the row showed that Dutch-Turks have a problem with integration.
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When Wilders compared Islam to Nazism in 2011 and in 2014 pledged to reduce the number of Moroccans in the Netherlands by some unspecified means, he was charged with inciting discrimination -- a criminal offense.
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"Imagine what a mess it would be in the zoo if all the cages were left open," Volendam retiree Willem Veerman said when asked why he has embraced Wilders' anti-Islam, anti-EU agenda.
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Mattijn van de Stroop, 45, said while watching Wilders on the stump in Nissewaard that he supports him because of his plan to lower the retirement age to 65 - raised to 67 under Rutte.
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His vicious brand of anti-Islam populism is no less shocking for its familiarity (Mr Wilders founded his Freedom Party in 2006, and he is not the first peddler of xenophobia to Dutch voters).
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GEERT WILDERS, a far-right Dutch politician who wants to shut down the country's mosques and withdraw from the European Union, is doing well in the race for the country's general elections in March.
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Mr Wilders has been pushing the boundaries of the Netherlands' tolerance for racially provocative speech since 2004, when he left the centre-right Liberal party (VVD) to launch his career as a radical populist.
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The Dutch head to the polls on Wednesday with far-right Geert Wilders a leading candidate, and Turkey has a referendum next month that would allow President Recep Erdogan to massively expand his powers.
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"We don't want the same thing to happen to us that happened in France and the Netherlands," wrote one user, referring to the election defeats of far right politicians Le Pen and Geert Wilders.
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In a debate this week, the only time Mr Rutte looked uncomfortable was when Mr Wilders savaged him over conditions in care homes, and claimed that prisoners were cared for better than the elderly.
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In both cases, the real motive was to fend off the rise of anti-immigrant parties, such as Marine Le Pen's National Front in France and Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom in the Netherlands.
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Campaigning for the March elections is due to begin shortly after the winter holidays, with most polls currently showing Rutte's conservative VVD Party trailing the far-right Freedom party of populist lawmaker Geert Wilders.
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Geert Wilders, who has been called the Netherlands' Donald Trump, has seen early momentum ease off but his Party for Freedom is still poised to secure the second-largest number of seats in parliament.
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Relief that Wilders, who had led the charge in the Netherlands for a "Nexit" — a Netherlands exit from the EU — was defeated was reflected a the message from the European Commission leadership as well.
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Heemels, who led Wilders' Freedom Party in the southern province of Maastricht, used party credit cards and withdrew 90,000 euros ($102,000) in cash to fund his high lifestyle between 2012 and 2016, prosecutors allege.
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Few women in the Netherlands wear face veils, but a ban has long been a demand of Geert Wilders' anti-Islam opposition Freedom Party which is leading in polls ahead of elections in March.
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From Politico, this February: "I have sent those messages to the[Trump] inner circle and encouraged that they communicate with Mr. Wilders," Congressman Steve King, an Iowa Republican, told Politico in a phone interview.
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Immigration, a major driver behind Britain's vote to leave the EU, has also been driving Dutch voters toward the far-right party of populist Geert Wilders ahead of elections in the Netherlands next year.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte last week defended Wilders' right to stage the contest, saying it fell within the boundaries of freedom of speech, but also stressed the plan was not a government initiative.
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Dutch PM Rutte fought off the challenge of anti-Islam and anti-EU rival Geert Wilders to score an election victory that was hailed across Europe by governments facing a rising wave of nationalism.
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The decision comes after Wilders' party, which wants to shut mosques and ban the Koran, slipped to second place in the Peilingwijzer poll of polls for the first time since November, with 15.7 percent.
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Analysts said one path to power for Wilders could open up if the CDA and VVD were decisively beaten by the PVV on March 15 and Rutte and Buma felt bound to step down.
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The far-right PVV in the Netherlands, led by a showman with a Trump-esque haircut named Geert Wilders, had called for a ban on Muslim immigration and withdrawing from the European Union ("Nexit").
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"The second big difference is that Wilders is very rational and very calculated; every move he makes in social media or on the campaign has been thought through in terms of strategy," she said.
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Chantal Suissa-Runne of the New We Foundation, a Dutch organization that works on issues of cultural diversity and understanding, notes that other Dutch parties have moved toward Wilders, rather than away from him.
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Earlier this week, Dutch police arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of threatening to attack far-right politician Geert Wilders over his plan to hold a contest of cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammad.
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That loss leaves a chasm between smaller left-wing parties and conservatives, including Rutte, who felt moved to match Wilders' anti-immigrant tone during the campaign in an attempt to contain his polling surge.
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During the news conference, Mr. Okamura, Ms. Le Pen and Mr. Wilders accused the bloc of destroying the sovereignty of member states by adopting a mandatory quota for asylum seekers from the Middle East.
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" In a tweet during a meeting in Amsterdam with Mr. Wilders and Frauke Petry, the leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party, Mr. King says, "Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end.
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The judges at his original trial found that Wilders' remarks were insulting to Dutch Moroccans and that his right to freedom of speech did not outweigh their right to be spared incitement to discrimination.
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King has also been an avid supporter of Wilders and other leaders of the burgeoning far-right and populist movements in Europe, such as France's Marine Le Pen, whom he met with last month.
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The second reason is that political support for Israel is too important to tarnish through association with the likes of Bannon or European kindred spirits such as Holland's Geert Wilders or Hungary's Viktor Orban.
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Other highlights: "EuroTrump" (Friday), a portrait of the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, and "12th and Clairmount" (Thursday), which constructs an account of the 1967 Detroit uprising from archival footage and audio testimony.
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Chastised by her father, who brought the family from Morocco to the Netherlands, for participating in an online protest, Layla shoots back with a reference to Geert Wilders, the right-wing, anti-Islam politician.
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The far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who recently refused to attend his hate-speech trial, used Twitter to congratulate "Italia + Matteo Salvini," a reference to the leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League.
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Judge Hendrik Steenhuis dismissed Wilders' lawyers arguments that he was being singled out, saying prosecutors have broad leeway in determining when they think someone has crossed the line from offensive speech to discriminatory speech.
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A longtime parliamentary colleague, Harry van Bommel, who came to office in 1998, the same year as Mr. Wilders, said it was difficult to deny that the political winds had shifted in his favor.
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"Wilders speaks to a part of Dutch society that feels their Dutch identity is threatened," said Fouad El Kanfaoui, 28, a banker at ABN Amro in The Hague and a second-generation Moroccan Muslim.
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"It's a real success," secretary general Nicolas Bay told France Inter radio, referring to how Wilders' party had won more seats, despite losing the overall result to Dutch center-right prime minister Mark Rutte.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch politician Geert Wilders said on Friday his conviction for insulting Moroccans and inciting discrimination against them was an attempt to silence him before a national election in March that would fail.
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Geert Wilders, the far-right contender to become the next prime minister of the Netherlands, was convicted today of inciting discrimination for saying in 6733 that the country would be safer with fewer Moroccans.
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The only way to break this vicious circle is for the parties in government to come together to support a positive program, one that justifies their cooperation and their decision to exclude Mr. Wilders.
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In January, Prime Minister Mark Rutte stirred up controversy when he took a page out of Wilders' playbook, publishing an open letter saying anyone who refused to respect Dutch customs should leave the country.
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On the first day of preliminary hearings Wilders confronted presiding judge Jeanne Gaakeer with her leading role in a foundation that awarded an academic prize in 2016 to someone he called "a left-wing activist".
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For many observers of this week's election in the Netherlands there was only one story: the fate of Geert Wilders, the bottle-blond nativist who wants to ban the Koran and exit the European Union.
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Even if Mr Wilders had prevailed this week, he would not have won power—in the Netherlands governments are formed from coalitions, and virtually all the other parties had vowed not to work with him.
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Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch anti-immigrant PVV party, said he would make a Dutch referendum on EU membership a central theme of his campaign to become prime minister in next year's parliamentary election.
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The attack came after Wilders canceled plans to hold the cartoon competition, which had also drawn a complaint by Pakistan's new foreign minister, who said cartoon depictions of the Prophet could incite hate and intolerance.
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" Wilders, who has said the U.S. "can't afford" a Clinton presidency, previously praised Trump's immigration policy, telling the Wall Street Journal politicians who ignore calls for restrictions on people entering the country are "very stupid.
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Markets also welcomed Dutch centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte's fighting off a challenge by anti-immigration, anti-European Union rival Geert Wilders to score an election win seen as a victory against populist nationalism.
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"I wish to address this short statement to Mr. Geert Wilders, his acolytes, indeed to all those like him -- the populists, demagogues and political fantasists," said Hussein, addressing a security conference Monday at the Hague.
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The euro climbed above $1.07 in late afternoon trade after initial exit polls in the Netherlands showed the moderate party under Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte maintained control against the populist party of Geert Wilders.
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Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders, expected to make huge gains in a March 15 election, said on Sunday that he would declare "the whole cabinet of Turkey persona non grata" and described Erdogan an "Islamo-fascist".
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"Whether Donald Trump, Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders — all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," Germany's Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said.
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Wilders, who campaigns on an anti-Islam platform that includes closing mosques and banning immigration from Muslim countries that has led to the protection, condemned the alleged breach, saying he cannot function without adequate security.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, who was trailing far behind the party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in exit polls in parliamentary elections, said Rutte "has not seen the last of me".
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Denk has promoted itself as a kind of answer to the nativist and isolationist positions of the flamboyant far-right populist candidate Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party, which has been surging in the polls.
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But the VVD and other Dutch mainstream parties have said they won't enter into a coalition with Wilders because his platform calls for banning mosques and the Koran as well as leaving the European Union.
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Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) had led pre-election polls since November before slowing slightly to second place by Monday with nearly 15 percent of the vote, just one percent behind Rutte's conservative VVD party.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office congratulated the Netherlands on a "terrific" election result after exit polls gave Prime Minister Mark Rutte a commanding lead over anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
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Wilders is also a dedicated politician and a true believer, who is convinced that the West is fighting a war for survival with "Global Islam" – also a guiding principle for Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
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And Geert Wilders, the Dutch lawmaker whose tirades against Islam and immigration have made him one of the most divisive figures in Europe, refused to attend the start of his trial on hate-speech charges.
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In the Netherlands, the Green Left party, led by the charismatic Jesse Klaver, openly embraced the Dutch tradition of tolerance and diversity with the same fervor that Mr. Wilders applied to his hatred of Muslims.
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In the Netherlands, both the conservative prime minister, Mark Rutte, and his far-right opponent, Geert Wilders, hoped to benefit from the dispute, though it was not immediately clear if either would see appreciable gains.
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Since even the increasingly right-wing V.V.D., headed by the current prime minister, Mark Rutte, has ruled out forming a government with Mr. Wilders, the Party For Freedom's chances of leading the country are slim.
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And so, stirred up by figures like Mr. Wilders, people get bogged down in absurd debates about Black Peter, the frolicking servant in blackface who accompanies St. Nicholas at his annual feast on Dec. 5.
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That party now looks likely to win about as many seats as Mr. Wilders, and if the mainstream right's seats are added to that, the far-right and center-right parties would have a majority.
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Mr. Wilders barely improved on his margin in the 2012 election (where he took 20103 percent) and failed to do as well as he did in 2010 (where he got 15.5 percent of the vote).
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However, anti-immigration campaigners like Marine Le Pen in France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands openly cite Islam as a reason for rejecting refugees, and they are increasingly setting the agenda for mainstream politicians.
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While international columnists were fretting about the rise of Dutch far-right provocateur Geert Wilders, more than 5,000 people packed into an Amsterdam rock arena Thursday to hear one of his fiercest political rivals speak.
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In 2009, a hacker self-identified as "aLpTurkTegin" hacked the website of the radical right-wing firebrand Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islamic, anti-EU stance led the U.K. to bar him from entry.
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