{"id":262853,"date":"2025-10-31T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262853\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:43:09","slug":"rob-jettens-dutch-centrist-liberal-party-wins-neck-and-neck-election-race-vote-analysis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262853\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Jetten&#8217;s Dutch centrist liberal party wins neck-and-neck election race, vote analysis says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul KirbyEurope digital editor<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20251021-134202-667692b2c6-web-2.32.2-1\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/052af770-b656-11f0-969b-0be52cca84d5.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Pierre Crom\/Getty Images D66 leader Rob Jetten addresses the press in a meeting room ahead of the faction meeting on October 30, 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Pierre Crom\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Rob Jetten, 38, is now tipped to become the youngest prime minister in modern Dutch history<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Dutch centrist liberal party of Rob Jetten has won Wednesday&#8217;s neck-and-neck election race, according to vote analysis indicating it cannot be beaten by anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Jetten&#8217;s D66 currently has a narrow lead of 15,000 votes over Wilders&#8217; Freedom Party, and Dutch news agency ANP says even though the vote count is not complete, Wilders can no longer win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Projections from almost 99% of the vote put both parties on 26 seats in the 150-seat parliament &#8211; but ANP says Jetten&#8217;s centrists could win a 27th seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Victory will mean Jetten will be able to start work on forming a coalition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Wilders had led opinion polls going into Wednesday&#8217;s election, but Rob Jetten, 38, succeeded in winning in some of the main Dutch cities including Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht with a positive campaign using a catchphrase of &#8220;Yes, we can&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He has been careful not to declare victory until all votes are in, but ANP said based on figures from the postal voters he could now be declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Although his path to forming a coalition is not straightforward, he is tipped to become the youngest prime minister in modern Dutch history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Pierre Crom\/Getty Images Rob Jetten, 38, is now tipped to become the youngest prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-262853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}