Dutch Far-Right Leader Wilders Scores Shock Election Victory
- Wilders’s Freedom Party claims 37 seats in parliament
- Former EU climate chief Timmermans second with 25 seats
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Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders won the Dutch elections and said he plans to lead the country’s next government, in a shock result that will resound across Europe.
The frontrunner Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius conceded defeat after a late surge in the final days of the campaign catapulted Wilders’s anti-EU party past his mainstream rivals. Wilders’s Freedom Party won 37 seats, according to a preliminary count, more than doubling his representation from the previous parliament and giving him 12 more than his closest rival.