By Toby Sterling and Suban Abdulla

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -As he celebrated his party’s election surge, Dutch centrist leader Rob Jetten declared voters had “turned the page” on Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration campaigner and a leading figure of European right-wing populism for two decades. A closer look suggests otherwise.

Although Wilders’ Freedom Party is set to lose seats and return to opposition, it still set to tie Jetten’s D66 as the biggest faction in the Dutch parliament.

Gains by other far-right candidates also show how parties based on anti-immigration platforms remain an enduring, and sizeable, part of the European political landscape.

“You won’t be rid of me until I’m 80,” the 62-year-old Wilders said after polls closed, vowing to fight D66 from the opposition benches.

His

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