Dutch voters head to polls in knife-edge  election focused on housing, Wilders

THE HAGUE, Oct 29: Dutch voters are going to the polls Wednesday in a knife-edge general election after a campaign that focused on migration, a housing crisis and whether parties will work with anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders if his Party for Freedom repeats its stunning victory from two years ago. The vote comes against a backdrop of deep polarisation in this nation of 18 million and violence at a recent anti-immigration rally in The Hague and at protests across the countries against new asylum-seeker centres. Polls suggest that Wilders’ party, which is calling for a total halt to asylum-seekers entering the Netherlands, remains on track to win the largest number of seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, but other more moderate parties are closing the gap and pollsters ca