The Dutch caretaker government has set a mammoth near-five-month election campaign for the coming snap general election after anti-Islamification campaigner Geert Wilders collapsed the government over asylum policy failures.

Dutch citizens will vote to choose their new parliament on October 29th, the caretaker government said as it accepted the advice of the national election council. The campaign period — a week short of five months — is even longer than the last snap election, which took place in November 2023 some four and a half months after the last Mark Rutte government collapsed.

Broadcaster NOS states the caretaker Minister of the Interior explained away the long wait to get a new government, stating while other countries were able to hold elections faster, in the Netherlands t

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