Dutch Centrist D66 Remains Largest Party After Counting Overseas Votes

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By MOLLY QUELL LA HAYA (AP) — A fierce national election in the Netherlands was decided by the postal votes of Dutch citizens living abroad, and the centrist party D66 won a victory over the far-right Freedom Party of the anti-Islamic legislator Geert Wilders, according to the final count of the national news agency ANP. Both parties will have 26 seats in parliament, as the advantage of approximately 28,000 votes for D66 was not enough for the p…

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The tensioned elections in the Netherlands ended by the numbering of votes by the correspondence of Dutch citizens living abroad. The D66 party gained a surprising victory in front of the Freedom Party, the extreme right formation of the anti-Islamic parliamentarian Geert Wilders. The final number was made by the National News Agency, according to the AP. The two parties will each have 26 parliamentarians because the advantage of about 28,000 vo…

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Today it became clear that the centrist Rob Jetten and his party D66 received more votes than the Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, when all the votes have been counted. The difference is historically small or 28,455 votes. Jetten had already declared victory on Friday after the Dutch ANP news agency, which keeps track of the numbers and announces the results, said that Wilders could not get better. Dutch people living abroad had the last 87 thous…

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The difference between the D66 centrist and the far right PVV is now 28,455 votes. The last votes came from approximately 90,000 Dutch expatriates, whose mail-order ballots were unloaded in The HagueThe announced victory of the centrist Rob Jetten in the legislative elections in the Netherlands was confirmed on Monday after the counting of the last ballots, in a very tight duel with the far right of Geert Wilders. Rob Jetten had already claimed …