Dutch anti-Islamists makes key gains in local elections

Thursday, 4 March 2010
BBC

Preliminary results in Dutch local polls suggest an anti-Islam party has made major gains and may pose a serious challenge in June parliamentary polls.

The Freedom Party (or PVV), led by Geert Wilders, is opposed to what it calls the country's "Islamisation".

General elections have been called following the collapse of the Dutch government in a dispute over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan. the rest

Dutch far-right leader Wilders in poll breakthrough