Thursday, March 16, 2017

Fate’s Left Hand

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/dutch-elections-greenleft-jesse-klaver
Party forecast to boost its MPs from four to 14 after storming campaign by young leader Jesse Klaver

The big winner of Wednesday’s election – and now the largest party of the Dutch left for the first time – was GreenLeft, headed by 30-year-old Jesse Klaver, hailed by his enthusiastic supporters as the “Jessiah”. [Read more].
GreenLeft (GroenLinks) leader Jesse Klaver meets members of the public in Amsterdam on Wednesday as voters went to the polls. Photo: Bas Czerwinski/EPA.

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