Reuters. Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders was welcomed with cheers and champagne by his party members as he arrived in his office in the Dutch parliament building on Thursday (November 23).
The Freedom Party leader stressed that he will start looking for coalition partners after a massive election win that is set to have wide repercussions in the Netherlands and Europe.
A fan of Hungary's eurosceptic Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the vocally anti-Islam Wilders has vowed to halt all immigration, slash Dutch payments to the European Union and block the entrance of any new members, including Ukraine.
Beating all predictions, his Freedom Party (PVV) won 37 seats out of 150, well ahead of 25 for a joint Labour/Green ticket and 24 for the conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
