Is far-right populism winning in the Netherlands?

Poll stations will open in an hour (07:30 h) and close at 21:00 h.
First prognoses will be published shortly after the closing time, projections later.

Oy.

I am not a speaker of yiddish except when I need it. I am not for decades a faith person, but a language adopter. But oy works for me.

it seems so

PM Mark Rutte's VVD party leads in the exit polls, Wilders’ PVV got only just a bit more votes than in the 2012 election, devastating defeat for the Social Democrats, great victory for the Green-Left

Exit Poll Ipsos 21:30

Thanks to Nimh for some very clear and informative material on these matters. A truly excellent summary and very topical.

Well, 5 more years in the Wildersness for the Dutch far right.

Mark Rutte has effectively halted the right-wing populist Geert Wilders.

Many considered this election to be a bellwether election for the European Union - now it can be seen as a symbolic victory against anti-European, nationalistic, extreme right populism.

The so-called "patriotic spring" Wilders predicted . victories for extreme right-wing nationalists across Europe - had failed to materialize.

We can be very thankful that Mark Rutte and not Wilders won.
Common sence won.
Looking at the Scandinavian papers they do not point out so clearly as the Germans it is victory against anti-European. (one cannot be an anti-European - the most anti EU)
Point more at the doubt Wilder could run a country, his hate propaganda and his anti in general.
I saw a poll from 2016 that about 46% of the Dutch are EU unfavorable
Sweden 44% and Germany 48%. Denmark was not even asked. Those polls are never really trustworthy.

Most likely, in my opinion, the new government will be a coalition of VVD, D66 and CDA.

Very good news. The old continent has still a bit of wisdom in its collective political brain, it seems.

Turkey:
40 Dutch cows to be sent back to Holland - the cows have started to cause serious problems
In a move intended to symbolise their discontent, authorities in Istanbul announced the scrapping of a twin-town scheme between Istanbul and Rotterdam. Turkey’s red meat association even ordered the expulsion of 40 Dutch cows of the Holstein Friesian breed.

“The Dutch Holstein cows have become very common in our country. But this breed is starting to cause serious problems,” Bulent Tunç, the head of the organisation, told the Anadolu news agency. “In future we do not want animal products from Holland. We have our own quality breeds.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/recep-tayyip-erdogan-rails-against-dutch-in-televised-speech-netherlands-srebrenica

The Conservative Democrats won the Dutch elections beating out the far-right "Freedom Party".
I guess people all over the world are still saying no to "Trumpism".

One thing I should mention, if the election had been held at the same time as Trump's it would have gone the other way. But now that people have had a chance to see the vast degradation of our politics, they said no thank you.

Ive no idea about the cows, but I'm no Erdogan fan.

We can be happy that the Conservative Democrats won.
Still they lost 5.3% from last election and the Wilder´s party had 3% more.
This shows the tendency in EU.
I think that how things will develope also depends a bit on how EU politicians behave in the future. There are no real danger for more Brexit at the moment but a lot of sceptisism.
Scandinavian politicians and journalist talk about EU...
Germans about Europe....
Erdogan`s behavior does not make it easeir for Muslims living in EU. People will blame Muslims for Erdogan. Very unfair.

A German paper this morning
Europe is cheering
A Swedish commentator
The EU leaders will breath a sign of relief
A Danish commentator
The EU-fanatiscs are relieved

Great TV debate between 5 of the French candidates yesterday night. Perhaps the most interesting political debate I ever saw on TV. I liked Melanchon's and Fillon's contributions; the general tone was very civil and occasionally constructive.

Macron beat them all without breaking a sweat, and with a smile, as usual. This guy is really a charmer. In comparison Le Pen looked tired, contrived, old and incoherent.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/21/macron-seen-winning-french-tv-debate-clashes-with-le-pen.html

Great news. How is Le Pen doing in the polls? Hopefully not so good.

She still commands a quarter of the electorate so could lead in the first round of voting, something which would already be an achievement for her. Her chances of winning the second round (between the two top contenders of first round) are almost nil.

This said, the campaign has been very open and with lots of ups and downs. Fillon has been wounded by the judges but he's not dead yet. Le Pen also has judiciary troubles (worse ones than Fillon's) that are weighting on her polls. Any twist and turn in those cases can affect the election.

Would love a cities vs countryside breakdown, nihm.
I"ve been told Wilders came out 8th in Ámsterdam and Rotterdam, so he must have won somewhere.
Probably, a pattern similar to the US and UK, but with more civilized results.