Your Guide to Dutch Elections, a Bellwether to European Populism
- Wilders’s Freedom Party now slipping in polls after leading
- Weeks, if not months, of talks needed for multiparty coalition
The Anti-Islam Populist Who Wants to Run the Netherlands
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In normal times, nobody outside of the Netherlands takes much interest in a Dutch election. Now, the ballot on March 15 -- just as the populist surge sweeps Europe and the U.S. -- has raised the prospect that the Netherlands will be the next domino to fall.
But just how likely is that? Here are five charts that tell you.