At the Flying Dutchman restaurant in the fishing village of Volendam in the Netherlands, chefs are busy battering bite-sized chunks of locally caught cod for their speciality dish of "kibbeling".

But on Saturday, the Flying Dutchman had a bigger political fish to fry: hosting far-right leader Geert Wilders for a meet-and-greet campaign stop five days before national elections.

Wilders, the anti-Islam and anti-immigration head of the PVV Freedom Party, aims to repeat his stunning performance from two years ago and win Wednesday's vote. Surveys put him on track to do that.

However, even if Wilders does win the election, he stands almost no chance of becoming prime minister.

In the highly fragmented Dutch system, parties have to form coalitions with several others and virtually every othe

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