Holland's Trudeau? Youthful Green surges before vote in campaign dominated by right

Dutch Green Party (Groen Links) leader Jesse Klaver speaks to Reuters during an interview about the 2017 Dutch election in the Hague, Netherlands, March 8, 2017. Picture taken March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Kooren

AMSTERDAM: A boyish 30-year-old who looks like Justin Trudeau and sounds like Barack Obama has emerged as a potential kingmaker in Dutch politics, riding a rare message of tolerance ahead of an election dominated by anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Jesse Klaver, son of a Moroccan father and part Indonesian mother, is expected to turn his tiny Green Left party into one of the main groups in the Dutch parliament in a vote next week that has mostly made headlines because of a far right surge.