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Geert Wilders

Dutch politician
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Geert Wilders (born September 6, 1963, Venlo, Netherlands) is a Dutch politician who became an influential force on his country’s political right through the promotion of anti-Islamic and anti-immigration views. He served as a member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 1998 and as leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid; PVV) from 2006. Wilders was born to a middle-class family and raised in the southeastern Netherlands, near the German border....

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