Dutch centrist leader Rob Jetten said he was "very confident" of being able to put together a government after his party's strong showing in parliamentary elections that saw Geert Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party lose ground.

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With most of the votes counted from Wednesday's election, which was seen as a test of the far right's strength in Europe, Jetten's D66 and Wilders' PVV were tied on Thursday, with both projected to take 26 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament.

That was a sharp drop for Wilders' party, which lost over a quarter of its seats in two years, stemming fro

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