Dutch election tomorrow focused on EU and Eurozone

The Socialists, who have renounced their 1970s Maoism and have never been in government, look poised to double their seats in the election by campaigning against Europe and the austerity that has sent governments toppling across the union, including the Netherlands, a successful prosperous core EU member with low unemployment and high quality of life.

Between them, the hard-left Socialists and the far-right Freedom party, united in their hostility to Brussels, their resistance to austerity at home, and their opposition to helping the struggling eurozone countries of the south, look likely to take a third of the 150-seat parliament, shifting the terms of the national debate and complicating the eurozone's fight to survive. "It will be a big anti-European bloc," said Sarah de Lange, an Amsterdam University political scientist. "This campaign is all about Europe. The Netherlands have gone from being the most reliable ally on Europe to very hostile."

Between them, the hard-left Socialists and the far-right Freedom party, united in their hostility to Brussels, their resistance to austerity at home, and their opposition to helping the struggling eurozone countries of the south, look likely to take a third of the 150-seat parliament, shifting the terms of the national debate and complicating the eurozone's fight to survive.

"I'm voting for Wilders," said Jo, a cafe owner, referring to the far-right anti-Islam populist, Geert Wilders and his Freedom party. "He's the only one who talks straight. He was the first to say we should get out of the euro. Now everyone's saying it."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/09/dutch-elections-measure-volatile-eurozone?

Seems like the Dutch Socialist party wants an end to austerity budgets and EU pressure on the Netherlands to control its finances. The far-right Freedom Party does the Socialists one better and wants out of the EU and Euro altogether.

Should be an interesting election in the Netherlands tomorrow.