The anti-immigration Party for Freedom is topping Dutch opinion polls following the highly-publicized murder of a teenage girl by a foreign national seeking asylum.

The PVV, founded and led by right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders, is leading public opinion surveys, with the next parliamentary election due in October, according to Dutch media.

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If the election were held today, PVV candidates would be projected to win 33 seats out of the 150-seat legislature, a significant advantage over the left-wing GroenLinks-PvdA party’s projected 26

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