Strong Anti-Immigration Vote Expected In Netherlands

By RFE/RL If public opinion polls prove correct, the Party for Freedom (PVV) of anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders should do well in today's parliamentary election in the Netherlands.

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The pre-election polls indicate the party, which campaigned on a call to "stop the Islamization of the Netherlands," as doubling its number of seats in the legislature from nine to 18. Geert Wilders has relentlessly pursued an anti-immigration line, asserting among other things that the cost of integrating the inflow of non-Western immigrants is a drain on the country's resources at a time of economic hardship. More...