Millions of Dutch people flocked to the polls on Wednesday in a test of the "patriotic revolution" promised by far-right MP Geert Wilders, with Europe closely watching the outcome amid signs his support may be waning. Following last year’s shock Brexit referendum, and Donald Trump’s victory in the US, the Dutch vote is seen as a gauge of populism in Europe ahead of key elections in France and Germany later in 2017. The Dutch election has also been gatecrashed by an explosive row with Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hurled a new round of abuse at The Netherlands on Wednesday, accusing the country of massacring more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Wilders voted in a school in The Hague, mobbed by hundreds of reporters, as final polls suggested he was trailing the Liberal VVD party of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte. "Whatever the outcome of the election today, the genie will not go back into the bottle. And this patriotic revolution, whether today o...
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