Dutch elections, a rehearsal for France?
Dutch voters will go to the polls on 15 March to elect their new MPs, in what many observers see as a dry run for the French presidential election one month later. EURACTIV France reports.
The extreme right in France and the Netherlands appears to be running on the same narrative: Europe is disenchanted and wants change.
And this message is resonating with a similar number of voters in both countries, with the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) and the French National Front (NF) consistently polling between 25-30%.
The French and Dutch electoral systems are very different – in the Netherlands, for example, 28 parties will compete for 150 seats in parliament – but while Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen are both out in front in the polls, neither has a realistic chance of becoming their country’s next leader.
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