(AFP) Far-right Dutch MEP Geert Wilders on Saturday said nationalist parties were experiencing “tough” times but predicted that they would make a come-back.
“It’s a tough time. We will come back,” Wilders said, speaking at an event in northern Italy.
“I believe there is a lot of support among the people, especially on the issue of immigration,” he added.
Wilders’s anti-Islam party lost four seats in the European Parliament election in May, which saw the Social Democrat party thrive in the Netherlands.
Italy’s far-right League party leader Matteo Salvini, who withdrew his party from a government coalition in August, has said the new pro-European Italian government, sworn in on Thursday, had been “formed on the indications of Paris, Berlin and Brussels.”
