06/06/2024June 6, 2024Results of EU vote will come down to turnout: DW correspondent
Polls show the far-right Freedom Party of Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders could make big gains in the EU elections.
But the results will ultimately come down to voter turnout, says DW correspondent Jack Parrock in Amsterdam.
“EU turnout for the elections is stubbornly low,” he said, pointing out that five years ago, “in the Netherlands, it was just over 40%.”
Exit polls will come out at around 9 p.m. local time (1900 UTC/GMT), but official results are only expected on Sunday evening, once voting across the bloc has ended.
Parrock said one reason the far right is proving popular with many Dutch voters is because they have pledged to fight some of the laws introduced in recent years.
“For instance, there’s a big farming community here in the Netherlands that has been hit hard, they say, by EU green laws that have been brought in over the last few years, and they’ve pushed the European Union to have some of them wound back.”
“So that is something that voters are voting for,” Parrock said.
But he pointed out that people in cities often have different priorities to those in more rural areas.
“Interestingly, here in the metropolitan city of Amsterdam, a lot of the people I spoke to are most concerned about climate change, about green issues, and are voting based on that.”
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