Dutch Election: Geert Wilders’ Party Places Second

The far-right did not gain control. 

Dutch PM Rutte scores big victory over far-right Wilders

AMSTERDAM Dutch center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte scored a resounding victory over anti-Islam and anti-EU Geert Wilders in an election on Wednesday, offering huge relief to other governments across Europe facing a wave of nationalism. Rutte declared it an “evening in which the Netherlands, after Brexit, after the American elections, said ‘stop’ to the wrong kind of populism.”