Rutte Says Netherlands Will Be Bulwark Against Populism’s Spread
- The Dutch will vote in a national election on March 15
- Prime Minister Rutte tied in latest poll with Geert Wilders
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called on voters to reject Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party at the country’s election in less than two weeks and to put a halt to the spread of populism that’s taken hold in several western democracies.
“The Netherlands now has the chance, on March 15, to stop the dominoes that keep falling in the U.K. and in the U.S., and that might fall in Germany, France and Italy,” Rutte said in an interview on Thursday on the news program BNR Nieuwsradio. “We will stop this new trend.”