POLITICS

D66 Tops Exit Polls; Coalition Talks Loom

Exit polls in the Netherlands put center-left Democrats 66 on top with a projected 27 seats, edging Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom at 25 and marking a 12-seat setback for his party. With no majority, months of coalition talks loom; D66 leader Rob Jetten seemed a likely contender for prime minister. The result would be D66’s first time as the largest party, gaining 18 seats, while other far-right groups picked up ground and the Green-Labor bloc lost five as its leader, Frans Timmermans, resigned.

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