The leader of the Dutch right, Geert Wilders, claims that there were irregularities in the elections. It is supposed to document controversial incidents without evidence, which raises questions from the public.
The leader of the Dutch right, Geert Wilders, said on the social network X on Friday that there were irregularities in the counting of votes in the early parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. However, he has not provided evidence for his claims, which he published after the social-liberal D66 party emerged as the winner of the election, apart from text messages from alleged witnesses to the irregularities. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
According to the local news agency ANP, the social liberal party D66 narrowly won against Wilders’ anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV). D66 leader Rob Jetten could therefore become the new prime minister.
Wilders posted a screenshot on X showing a message allegedly coming from a person who was involved in organizing the election in one of the precincts in Maastricht. It is said that an urn was brought here from another district, and when someone pointed it out, they took out 132 tickets and declared them invalid. Another report claims that 15 ballot boxes have disappeared in the town of Zaanstad.
He’s not sure if that’s true
“From all corners of the country there are reports like this,” Wilders said. “I don’t know if it’s true, but it would be good if they investigated,” he added. He then published another report suggesting that the head of a company that provided election software had ties to D66. “Is this news true?” asked Wilders.
According to the Electoral Commission’s website, HackDefense tested election software in 2021 and 2023, when Wilders won the most votes. For last year’s elections to the European Parliament and this week’s parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, it chose another company – Fox-IT. The board said Fox-IT found no serious security flaws in the software.
AFP reports that one constituency and foreign votes still need to be counted, but Jetten has a 15,155-vote lead over Wilders and his party. The Electoral Commission plans to release the official results in a week on Friday.
