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(16 Mar 2017) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY

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Wassenaar - 16 March 2017
1. Lady pushing a young girl on a bike with a windmill in the background
2. Pan from windmill to PVV (Party for Freedom) campaign poster
3. Various of people sitting at cafe
4. Pan from town square to VVD (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) Local Campaign Coordinator Luc Demarteau reading the newspaper
5. Close of newspaper headline (Dutch) "Yet again Rutte"
6. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Luc Demarteau, VVD Local Campaign Coordinator, Wassenaar:
"People here are relatively wealthy, well-educated, and nevertheless the emotion in the streets was bitterness. We have tried to revolve that into positivism, an optimistic vision. And this has had its impact in the results."
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The Hague - 16 March 2017
7. Ruud Koole, Political Science Professor at Leiden University, walks by with parliament in background
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruud Koole, Political Science Professor at Leiden University:
"Well the staunch supporters, they will have voted for Wilders anyway. But in order to become big, the PVV, Wilders's party, needs to win over also swing voters hesitating between Wilders party and other right wing parties, and these swing voters he might have lost because of the role the prime minister played in the diplomatic crises with Turkey, because other mainstream parties played this national identity card, and these swing voters he did not win very much."
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Zoetermeer - 16 March 2017
9. Various of people walking along pathway in shopping area
10. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Nico Bolleboom (66), resident of Stompwijk:
(Asked who he wanted to give his vote to) "To the PVV. But I did not go to vote, on purpose, consciously, because I was afraid they'd become too big. "
11. Men pushing bikes along pathway
12. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Nico Bolleboom (66), resident of Stompwijk:
"I don't want it (the political situation) to become the same here as it is now in the United States because it is going too far over there. So for the equilibrium, I think the (election) results are quite good."
13. Woman wearing headscarf walking
14. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Ria Vogelaar (70), resident of Leidscheveen:
(Asked why she did not vote for PVV) "Because of the social part that I am accustomed to. It would have been a protest vote (to vote for Wilders), but then I thought to myself, no, this can't be. There are other people too."
15. Bags on sale
16. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Ria Vogelaar (70), resident of Leidscheveen:
"These statements of his (Wilders), I find them too crude. You cannot do that. That's not how we interact with one another. That's what made me think, no, this can't be."
17. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Hanny van den Bogert, resident of Zoetermeer:
(Asked why she did not vote for the PVV) "Just because I was afraid that we'd get all kinds of racist hassle. That's why I did that (vote for D66 party instead).
18. Various of people in shopping area
STORYLINE:
Despite a relatively strong showing in the Dutch parliamentary elections on Wednesday, Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) failed to pull in the votes early polls had predicted.
While wealthy areas like the town of Wassenaar were always expected to vote in favour of the ruling People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), there was still bitterness on the streets and concern among local campaigners that the PVV would make gains.
Where Wilders would have hoped to make strong gains was in more working class areas like Zoetermeer, a small suburb near The Hague.
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