In a small Dutch village just two hours from Amsterdam, women wearing traditional shawls, bonnets and pleated skirts set out to do their groceries one Monday morning.

Their old-fashioned garb is the norm in the town of Staphorst, nestled near the top end of the so-called Dutch Bible Belt, which stretches from Zeeland in the southwest to northeastern Overijssel.

The far right's electoral success in this area attests to the movement's persistence, despite a slim centrist victory over Geert Wilders in October elections.

Wilders's PVV is not the only far-right party in the Netherlands. While it lost 11 seats last month, the nationalist FvD party rose from three seats to seven.

The FvD, which advocates climate-sceptic policies and a Dutch exit from the European Union, enjoyed its strongest

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