(22 Nov 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amsterdam - 22 November 2023
1. Various shots of voters casting their votes at Club Amsterdam
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nico von der Heiden, 58, palliative care nurse from Amsterdam:
"Am I afraid of right-wing politics? I hope it won't come to that. But I think if it will be right-wing, a lot of things will change. And I don't think it will be for the best."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nico von der Heiden, 58, palliative care nurse from Amsterdam:
"For sure we'll get a new government. I hope the VVD (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) won't be part of it because they've been in there for 13 years. So it's time for a change."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacobine Visser, 48, clinical midwife from Amsterdam (permission given that we can also film her child standing next to her):
"It feels like a very important election year because a lot of things can change now, I think. Because if yes, it's a big choice between very much right and left. And I really don't want the right wing to be in power."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fedde ter Punt, 24, data consultant from Amsterdam
"Afraid is a big word. And I'm not a big fan of (Geert) Wilders, so like, more PVV (Party for Freedom). So hopefully it won't turn out that he will win and will be our minister president from now on. But yes, we will see."
6. Voters casting their votes at Club Amsterdam
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Enschede - 22 November 2023
7. Various of people voting
8. Various of candidate Pieter Omtzigt and wife Ayfer Koç voting
STORYLINE:
Voters in Amsterdam, Enschede and across the rest of the Netherlands went to the polls early Wednesday morning to cast their ballots in the general election.
Amsterdam residents were seen lining up at the city's Club Amsterdam with the ballot expected to usher in a new generation of Dutch leaders after key members of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s fourth governing coalition announced they would leave politics.
His replacement after 13 years in office could be the country’s first female premier or a social democrat who left his job as the European Union’s climate czar to return to national politics. The next prime minister also might turn out to be an anti-Islam lawmaker or a centrist who created his party only three months ago.
The outcome after polls opened in the morning is hard to predict given what happened in other European elections in recent months. Populist and hard-right parties triumphed in some EU member nations and faltered in others, creating conflicting messages on where democracy on the continent was heading.
AP video shot by Daniel Niemann
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