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Rutte Wins Dutch Election With Signs of Softening on Europe Bloomberg 3 days ago Diederik Baazil © Photographer: Bart Maat/AFP/Getty Images Dutch Prime Minister of the Liberal party (VVD) Mark Rutte casts hi ballot to vote in the House of Representatives elections at a polling station in The Hague on March 17, 2021 (Bloomberg) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte won a clear victory in Wednesday’s national election to secure a fourth term in office, with early results showing the country may be ready for a more conciliatory relationship with the rest of Europe after the traumas of the pandemic. Rutte’s center-right party, the VVD, won 36 seats in the 150-strong parliament, up from 33 in 2017, with the pro-European group D66 in second place with 24 seats, according to a projection early Thursday by Dutch news agency ANP with 63% of votes counted.

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