The Netherlands will make history by electing Rob Jetten, 38, as its new prime minister, following national elections held on Wednesday, October 29. The victory makes Jetten both the youngest and the first openly gay leader to hold the office, according to German outlet Deutsche Welle (DW).<\/p>\n
Jetten, leader of the centrist-liberal D66 party, defeated Geert Wilders of the far-right Party for Freedom, who campaigned on anti-immigration policies and previously called for a ban on the Quran among other Islamophobic remarks, People reported.<\/p>\n
“I am incredibly happy that … we have become the biggest party in this election,” Jetten told reporters after the results were announced. “A historic result for the D66. At the same time, I feel a great responsibility.”<\/p>\n
He added, “I think we’ve now shown to the rest of Europe and the world that it is possible to beat the populist movements if you campaign with a positive message for your country.”<\/p>\n
Awaiting final confirmation<\/p>\n
Although Jetten is the projected winner, DW reports that the result will be officially confirmed on Monday, 3 November, once mail-in ballots from Dutch citizens living abroad are counted.<\/p>\n
Celebrating with his fianc\u00e9<\/p>\n
On election night, Jetten was supported by his fianc\u00e9, two-time Olympian Nico Keenan, who shared a light-hearted TikTok video of the couple preparing for the evening. In the clip, set to RAYE\u2019s \u201cWhere the Hell Is My Husband?\u201d, Keenan appeared in a suit before Jetten joined him. The pair smiled at the camera and shared a brief kiss.<\/p>\n
“Election night, let\u2019s go\ud83d\udd25\ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffd,” Keenan captioned the post.<\/p>\n
Jetten has also been a visible supporter of Keenan\u2019s sporting career. When Keenan competed for Argentina in field hockey at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Jetten was in the stands cheering him on.<\/p>\n
The couple announced their engagement in November 2024, when Keenan posted a photo of his ring on Instagram, writing, \u201cSoon to be Mr&Mr\ud83d\udc8d.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keenan, who is bisexual<\/a>, plays for the Netherlands<\/a>\u2019 Hockey Club Klein Zwitserland, having joined in 2017. In an interview with Dutch outlet Trouw earlier this year, he said he had received messages of support for competing as an openly bisexual athlete.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople told me how happy they were that there was finally an openly bisexual hockey player playing in the Premier League,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to the BBC, Jetten and Keenan are expected to marry next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netherlands will make history by electing Rob Jetten, 38, as its new prime minister, following national elections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71130,85,46,71129,71128,71126,71127,105],"class_list":["post-109191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-historic-election-result","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-netherlands-prime-minister","tag-nico-keenan","tag-openly-bisexual-hockey-player","tag-rob-jetten","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}