The far-right party of Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders was running neck-and-neck with a pro-European centrist party in a nailbiting election, according to an estimate Thursday with more than 90 percent of votes counted.

The D66 party of Rob Jetten and the PVV Freedom Party of Wilders were both on 26 seats with nearly 95 percent of votes counted, according to the second provisional estimate by the local ANP news agency.

An earlier IPSOS exit poll had suggested Jetten was on course to win the election with 27 seats out of the 150 in parliament, estimating Wilders at 25 seats.

The ANP forecast put the D66 fractionally ahead, but with a lead of only a few thousand votes. A final estimate is expected later Thursday.

With far-right parties topping the polls in Britain, France and Germany, the

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