Populism can be stopped, says jubilant Dutch GreenLeft leader

Jesse 'the Jessiah' Klaver celebrates Netherlands poll wins with pro-refugee message before possible coalition deal

It is far too early to say whether Jesse Klaver's GreenLeft will be a party of government for the first time in its history. But for the 30-year-old leader of a political party, the Netherlands' youngest ever, it was not a bad election.

GreenLeft was the big winner in Wednesday's poll, leaping from four MPs to 14 in the 150-seat parliament, topping the bill in Amsterdam and overtaking the stricken social democratic PvdA to become the largest party of the left nationally.