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What is remarkable in the Netherlands is that the largest party got 20% of the votes and 5 out of 25 seats.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 6th, 2009 at 05:19:31 AM EST
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It's part of a long-running trend of political fragmentation. This will continue in the Netherlands as in other European countries with low electoral thresholds and proportional representation.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sat Jun 6th, 2009 at 07:23:58 AM EST
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