LEIDEN, Netherlands — Europe should defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated Rob Jetten, chief of the progressive-liberal social gathering, which exit polls on Wednesday night time projected to win the Dutch election.
Asked by Euractiv whether or not he would again Ukraine it doesn’t matter what, Jetten replied: “Absolutely – and there’s a really broad majority on this new chamber to assist the Ukrainians it doesn’t matter what, as a result of we’ve to defeat Putin. We will at all times stand with the Ukrainian individuals.”
Exit polls prompt D66 would emerge as the biggest social gathering with 27 of the 150 seats within the chamber. If confirmed by remaining outcomes, it might mark a historic victory for Jetten’s centrist motion after an election broadly anticipated to be received by both far-right populist Geert Wilders or left-wing chief Frans Timmermans.
Addressing a raucous crowd waving Dutch flags, Jetten declared: “Millions of Dutch individuals have turned the web page right this moment.” He stated voters had bid farewell to the “negativity and infinite hatred” of the earlier right-wing populist authorities that included Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which collapsed in June after Wilders fell out together with his coalition over migration.
Jetten pledged to kind a “steady” coalition, although which centrist events will in the end be part of him in authorities is more likely to take months of negotiations to find out.
Exit polls positioned Wilders’ social gathering second, the right-wing liberal VVD third, and Timmermans’ GreenLeft-Labour alliance fourth.
Timmermans, a former top-ranking European commissioner, resigned as chief of his alliance earlier within the night.
Jetten, who may grow to be the Netherlands’ first overtly homosexual prime minister, is a former power minister who severely underperformed as social gathering chief within the 2023 election however now seems to have staged a comeback.
Anupriya Datta contributed reporting from Brussels.
