Within the Netherlands, immigration dominates election marketing campaign

Dutch voters head to the polls on October 29 and far-right events have made immigration the central situation of the marketing campaign. This hardline rhetoric led to anti-immigrant riots in September in The Hague and violent protests in cities the place asylum centres are set to open. Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration PVV is predicted to change into the biggest occasion in parliament after the elections, however different events are additionally adopting his anti-immigrat narrative and rising within the polls, notably the far-right occasion JA21. FRANCE 24’s Fernande van Tets and Alix Le Bourdon report.[/gpt3]