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Feb. 18, 2021
The far right in the Netherlands was looking ominously strong in February 2020. Its two main political parties, with their eccentric, highly controversial leaders Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet, were polling at a combined 23 percent, and the 38-year-old Baudet was even threatening to displace Wilders, 57, as the country’s far-right figurehead.
Fast-forward a year, though, and while Wilders’ Freedom Party is still on course to be the second-biggest party in the March 17 general election, Baudet’s own Forum for Democracy party has plummeted in the opinion polls and looks like they will get just enough votes to cross the electoral threshold.