Populism can be stopped, says jubilant Dutch GreenLeft leader
by Jon Henley and Gordon Darroch in The Hague from Environment | The Guardian on (#2G2Q7)
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.
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