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This year's election campaign in the Netherlands has been the least eventful in decades (Photo: Piotr Chrobot)

The Dutch election is boring - and that's a good thing

This year's election campaign in the Netherlands has been the least eventful in decades.

Party leaders can barely meet with voters.

Only Thierry Baudet, the leader of the far-right Forum for Democracy, campaigns like there is no coronavirus, which he compares to a bad flu.

There are televised debates, and they are watched by as many as 1.8 million voters, on a population of 17 million - but they haven't made much of an impact on the polls.

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Nick Ottens is the founder of Atlantic Sentinel, a transatlantic opinion website, and has written for the NRC newspaper in the Netherlands, the Atlantic Council's blog, World Politics Review, and various other publications. He is a member of the Netherlands' VVD.

This year's election campaign in the Netherlands has been the least eventful in decades (Photo: Piotr Chrobot)

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Author Bio

Nick Ottens is the founder of Atlantic Sentinel, a transatlantic opinion website, and has written for the NRC newspaper in the Netherlands, the Atlantic Council's blog, World Politics Review, and various other publications. He is a member of the Netherlands' VVD.

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