Exit polls show a center-left party gaining ground in the Netherlands’ national elections. That’s a setback for the far-right party of Geert Wilders, who expected a decisive win. But Sarah de Lange, a professor of Dutch politics at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that Dutch voters who support the extreme right have not returned to the mainstream.
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