Europe braced for NEXIT with all eyes on anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders and his ‘patriotic revolution’ as elections get underway in the Netherlands amid blazing row with Turkey
Millions of Dutch voters are going to the polls today in divisive elections
The Dutch election is seen as a test of anti-immigrant and nationalist feeling
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is likely to win, but see his share of vote fall
Firebrand anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders is clinging on to second place
Wilders: ‘This patriotic revolution, whether today or tomorrow, will stay’
By THOMAS BURROWS and NICK ENOCH
DailyMail.com
15 March 2017
Millions of Dutch flocked to the polls today in a test of the ‘patriotic revolution’ promised by far-right MP Geert Wilders, with Europe closely watching the outcome amid signs his support may be waning.
Following last year’s shock Brexit referendum, and Donald Trump’s victory in the US, the Dutch vote is seen as a gauge of populism on the continent ahead of key elections in France and Germany this year.
The Dutch election has also been gatecrashed by an explosive row with Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hurled a new round of abuse at The Netherlands today, accusing the country of massacring over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995.
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