Local Elections 2010

Stop Wilders party can keep its name

The Hague's local election organisers must include the political party Stop Wilder Nu on the ballot paper for the March 3 local elections, the country's highest court, the Council of State, ruled on Friday.

The election body had refused to include the party, saying the name constituted a threat against the anti-Islam campaigner.

The party hopes to contest the local elections in the Hague, one of two cities where Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party PVV is also taking part.

A TNS Nipo poll out on Friday puts the PVV in fourth place in the city. The Labour party would take nine of the 45 seats being contested, with the two liberal parties D66 and VVD on eight seats. The PVV would take six.

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