Dutch Elections Can’t Be Won by Changing the Story, Rutte Says

The Dutch Liberal Party can win over voters from populist Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party by showing that all people will benefit from the economic recovery, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

“Many people know that, now we are coming out the recession, they had to pay the price to achieve this fact,” Rutte said in a Bloomberg interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “What I now want to show to the Dutch people is that everybody has to be part of this recovery. That’s something I’m working on, and I’m absolutely convinced that I will win that argument.”