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Mon 06 Jun 2009EU critic's anti-Islam stance wins controversy and votes
EU PROFILE: THE NETHERLANDS:GEERT WILDERS, a former civil servant sporting a platinum-blond bouffant hairstyle, stands on the cusp of a significant electoral breakthrough in the Netherlands.
Wilders’s Party for Freedom (PVV), which he founded in 2004, is campaigning on a populist platform of law and order, cracking down on immigration and opposing Turkish accession to the EU. It is forecast to pick up four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European Parliament.
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