On the VVD celebration headquarters, chief Dilan Yeşilgöz walked onto the stage to chants of her title, a placing distinction to earlier rumors that she may need to resign if the celebration suffered main losses.
Chatting with POLITICO, she framed the early outcomes as a mandate for a center-right agenda: “Primarily based on these [early] outcomes, the Netherlands has chosen a center-right course by which we actually commit ourselves to a robust protection sector, a robust economic system, and decrease taxes.”
When requested concerning the obvious contradiction of celebrating regardless of a modest decline in seats, Yeşilgöz replied: “The polls up to now months weren’t so good for the VVD. Whenever you see how we’ve been in a position to rebound from that, then there’s motive to talk of a fantastic celebration.”
Followers of the GreenLeft-Labor alliance, who gathered within the massive Maassilo venue in Rotterdam, fell silent after the exit ballot revealed the joint ticket had underperformed, shedding seats in comparison with the final election and falling in need of predictions in the newest surveys.
Enthusiasm had constructed earlier than the exit ballot, in a venue lit up in pink and inexperienced the place attendees had been served pink and inexperienced photographs — however the temper was rapidly doused.
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Elena Giordano reported from Brussels. Hanne Cokelaere reported from Leiden. Pieter Haeck reported from Rotterdam. Koen Verhelst and Eva Hartog reported from The Hague.
