AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Eurosceptic party of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders was pushed into a surprise fourth place in European Parliament elections on Thursday, according to exit polls which showed his Freedom Party behind three pro-European groups.
Wilders's anti-immigration, anti-Islam party, which had been expected to win the Dutch part of the vote for the European Union's parliament, took only 12.2 percent, the final exit poll showed. That would give it three out of the 26 Dutch seats in the assembly, down from five in 2009.
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