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Transcript: Analysis: Upcoming elections in the Netherlands
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- January 22, 2003
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Analysis: Upcoming elections in the Netherlands
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Dutch voters go to the polls today for the second time in eight months.
Just days before last year's elections, the anti-immigrant politician,
Pim Fortuyn, was assassinated. Thanks to a huge sympathy vote, his
upstart party, the Fortuyn List, rocketed to second place and entered
a coalition government. But Fortuyn's party and its coalition partners
succumbed to infighting, so voters are back at the polls. Gregory
Crouch reports.
GREGORY CROUCH reporting:
Pim Fortuyn's party made a last-ditch effort this weekend to win back
voters. It ...