AMSTERDAM, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Far-right populist
Geert Wilders wants to be the Netherlands' next prime minister and would focus his efforts on curbing immigration, he said following a landmark
election win that will have repercussions in the Netherlands and beyond.
Wilders' win sent a
warning shot to mainstream parties across Europe ahead of European Parliament elections next June, which will likely be fought on the same issues as the Dutch election: immigration, cost of living and climate change.
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"We've had it with the old politicians," voter Herman Borcher said in the eastern town of Enschede, summing up the mood.
A fan of former U.S. President Donald Trump and Hungary's eurosceptic Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Wilders is openly anti-Islam, and anti-EU and said "the Netherlands will be returned to the Dutch."
But his most radical ideas - and in particular any plans to take the country out of the EU or ban the Koran - will be
rejected by other parties he must work with in order to form a coalition government, meaning he will have to compromise.