It was no surprise that the far-right Freedom Party did well. But even its leader, Geert Wilders, did not expect to come second. Yet a combination of strong Euroscepticism and strident anti-Islamic rhetoric won 17% of the vote for Mr Wilders, giving his party four seats in the European Parliament-one fewer than the Christian Democrats. Euroscep-tic parties, which include the far-left Socialists and a pair of small Calvinist parties, took nearly a third of Dutch seats.
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