{"id":438918,"date":"2025-10-30T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/10\/30\/paesi-bassi-il-centro-vince-le-elezioni-il-partito-di-wilders-pero-potrebbe-esse-ancora-il-piu-votato\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:24:28","slug":"centre-poised-to-win-dutch-elections-but-wilders-party-may-top-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/30\/centre-poised-to-win-dutch-elections-but-wilders-party-may-top-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre poised to win Dutch elections, but Wilders’ party may top the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Together until the last vote: In the Netherlands, even with 99.6 percent of the ballots counted,<\/strong> it is still unclear who won the most votes in the parliamentary elections. Competing for the top spot are the liberal center-left party D66<\/strong> and the ultra-right formation PVV<\/strong>, led by Geert Wilders,<\/strong><\/a> both with 26 seats (but it is a collapse for the nationalist party, which had 37 MPs).<\/p>\n

The other results speak of a center that is alive again. The Christian Democrats of the CDA<\/strong> improved compared with 2023 by winning 18 MPs, while Mark Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy<\/strong> remains stable (22 seats). Taking a step back<\/strong>, however, is the center-left. The leader of the Green Left and Labor (GL-PvdA) coalition, Frans Timmermans<\/strong>, and father of the Green Deal, has already announced his resignation<\/strong>. The Left has lost five MPs since 2023.<\/p>\n

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Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders cuts a flag of Europe <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goodbye Wilders, hello Europe<\/h3>\n

Although the result is not yet final \u2014more than 12 hours after the polls closed \u2014one thing is sure: the significant drop in Wilders’ ultra-right. <\/strong>Just two years ago, the Party for Freedom had elected 37 MPs, frightening the whole of Europe. A few months ago, it dissolved the government of which it was a part to call early elections<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Brussels is celebrating. “<\/strong>This is an encouraging signal for all of Europe. <\/strong>Pro-EU liberal and democratic forces can start winning again,” said liberal MEP Sandro Gozi, <\/strong>going out on a limb.<\/p>\n

Driving the breakthrough coming from the center is Rob Jetten<\/strong>, 38, leader of D66. “We have succeeded,” he declared last night in front of a cheering crowd. “Millions of Dutch people have chosen positive forces, and a policy that looks to the future.” The man who is now one of the possible next prime ministers<\/strong> has managed to take D66 from 9 seats in 2023 to 26 in this election, a political windfall he must now manage to build solid alliances.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ballots to be counted<\/h3>\n

Jetten’s jubilation, however, came a few hours early. According to the latest estimates released by the state broadcaster NOS<\/a>, the PVV would have overtaken D66 by 1,382 votes<\/strong>: a handful of preferences that reinvigorate the populist leader. “If we are the ones with the most votes, we should be given the mandate,” Wilders said. A hope that is likely in vain, given that Wilders would have far more difficulty forming alliances.<\/p>\n

In any case, at this point, every preference matters. According to information released by NOS, the 90,000 ballots from overseas voters<\/strong> have not yet arrived, and the count of 20 percent of the votes in Amsterdam <\/strong>is still missing. The final outcome will only be known in several hours.<\/p>\n

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D66 wins the Dutch election with 16.7%, narrowly beating PVV.<\/p>\n

The result marks a comeback for pro-EU liberals after years of far-right momentum.<\/p>\n

With no majority, tough coalition talks lie ahead as Europe watches the Netherlands\u2019 next move. pic.twitter.com\/FPJeZVMdZs<\/a><\/p>\n

– Xavi Ruiz (@xruiztru) October 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nPossible alliances<\/h3>\n

For now, all that remains is to speculate on the future shape of the executive. The most concrete hypothesis is an alliance among D66, the VVD<\/strong>, <\/strong>and the Christian Democrats (CDA<\/strong>). <\/strong>This team, however, would be nine seats short.<\/strong> <\/strong>According to the independent think tank Center for European Reform<\/a>, <\/strong>a possible alternative would be a union with the center-left<\/strong>. <\/strong>“The resignation of the leader of the Green\/Labor Party (GL\/PvdA), Timmermans, could make it easier for the VVD to engage in coalition negotiations with GL\/PvdA and the Christian Democrats (CDA) under the leadership of D66,” the Center said in a statement. A line-up that, although it presents different political positions, is entirely favorable to European integration.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The extreme right is still there<\/h3>\n

The think tank, however, does not forget to point out that “the results of the Dutch elections are unlikely to mark the end of populism in the Netherlands<\/strong>. Although the Party for Freedom (PVV) lost seats, the far-right vote fragmented.” The ultra-right formation JA21,<\/strong> established only five years ago, elected nine representatives. There was also increased support for the Forum voor Democratie (FvD)<\/strong>, which will have seven seats, four more than in 2023. The party is part of the radical Europe for Sovereign Nations (ESN) group <\/strong>at the EU level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breakthrough for D66. The centrist formation led by young Rob Jetten won 26 seats, the same as Wilders’ extreme right. Sando Gozi (Renew): ‘An encouraging signal for the whole of Europe’. Frans Timmermans resigns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7891,"featured_media":438891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[32490,26749,26526,26527],"class_list":["post-438918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-d66","tag-frans-timmermans-en","tag-geert-wilders-en","tag-paesi-bassi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438919,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438918\/revisions\/438919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}