The vote comes against a backdrop of deep polarization in this nation of 18 million, violence at a recent anti-immigration rally in The Hague and protests against new asylum-seeker centers.
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The centrist D66 party nearly tripled its seats, while Geert Wilders’s right-wing party suffered a drop from its shocking first-place finish in 2023.
In a poll, 66% of registered Latino voters in California were concerned about an immigration enforcement at a vote site.