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Woman wearing veil and pushing child in pushchair walking past billboard with election posters, veiled women in distance2. Medium shot of veiled women3. Election billboard reading: Parliament Elections, 22 November 2006 4. Close-up of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Woman wearing veil and pushing child in pushchair walking past billboard with election posters, veiled women in distance\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium shot of veiled women\u003cbr/\u003e3. Election billboard reading: Parliament Elections, 22 November 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up of billboard with Jan-Peter Balkenende, CDA (Christian Democrats) poster and PvdA (Labour party) poster\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up of billboard with Geert Wilders poster and List Fortuyn poster \u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of voting station \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close-up of sign saying: \"Voting Station Entrance \u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of voters registering and casting their vote, some of whom are wearing veils\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Voxpop, voter: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the CDA (Christian Democrats) government has really impoverished people.  All the social contributions have been reduced, to make savings, on this and on that. But people also have to live, so we expect that PvdA (Labour Party) will win, maybe Mr Bos (leader of the Labour party).\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Nassima (no surname given), voter:  (commenting on burqa law proposal):\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think you should leave everybody with their dignity. If a woman wants to cover herself, than she should be able to cover herself; and if somebody else doesn't want to do that than he or she doesn't have to. It's up to the people themselves, it's not up to her (Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk) to say something about it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mrs Oost (no first name given), local resident: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the Netherlands at the moment has many problems, and all the attention is going to - I shouldn't say this - but all attention is on the foreigners. But I think this is the Netherlands and the Dutch are also very important.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of veiled women with children\u003cbr/\u003e13. Exterior of the As-Soennah mosque\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fawaz Jneid, Imam at the As-Soennah mosque: \u003cbr/\u003e\"On the burqa topic, there is some discussion among Islamic scholars about whether it's a requirement or not. The amount of women in the Netherlands who wear a face covering cloth is not great. The reality is that this law will hurt the Netherlands much more, than it will hurt the women (in the Netherlands) who wear a burqa, so to speak, because the image of the Netherlands abroad will no longer be that of a country that is tolerant of all thoughts and other religions. This law in reality will hurt the Netherland's image abroad more, than Verdonk's (Immigration and Integration Minister) law will hurt women who wear the hijab.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Women wearing full length veils\u003cbr/\u003e16. Lawyer Famile Fatma Arslan looking through papers\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Famile Fatma Arslan, Lawyer: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Fifty women, maximum. Maximum hundred, I'm really exaggerating. For (a) hundred women, there should be a law? Why are we doing this? We have domestic violences problem, we have problems of discrimination on the labour market. We have so many socio-economic problems who (that) deserve our attention. And we are focussing on that piece of clothing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Passer-by stopping to look at election billboard\u003cbr/\u003eThe Dutch voted in a tight election on Wednesday, deciding whether to keep a Christian Democrat-led government with a tough immigration and pro-business programme, or opt for a left-leaning Labour-led alliance favouring a softer approach.\u003cbr/\u003ePrime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende sought to cash in on an economic turnaround and, despite his reputation for blandness and weak leadership, his Christian Democrats appear on track to remain the largest party.\u003cbr/\u003eParts of the election campaign was dominated by the issues of immigration with the Prime Minister insisting that illegal migrants must be deported as well as whether to prohibit the wearing of the Burqa .\u003cbr/\u003eSome on the streets in the Hague felt that other issues should have been discussed more during campaigning.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the Netherlands at the moment has many problems, and all the attention is going to - I shouldn't say this - but all attention is on the foreigners,\" one woman said.\u003cbr/\u003eWith as many as 40 percent of 12 million eligible voters still undecided in the final surveys, it was impossible to forecast winners and losers.\u003cbr/\u003eThe only safe prediction appeared to be that many weeks of coalition-building will be needed after the vote is in, most likely between Balkenende and Bos.\u003cbr/\u003eIn four years in office, Balkenende has ushered his country, renowned for its hashish-selling coffee shops and legalised prostitution and euthanasia, through a tumultuous debate over immigration and the threat of Islamic terrorism following two political murders.\u003cbr/\u003eLed by hard-line Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk of the free-market Liberal Party, the government ended the Netherlands' traditional openness to foreigners and boosted the powers of police and intelligence agencies. \u003cbr/\u003eIf Balkenende is returned to power, he will try to push through a ban on head-to-toe Islamic robes such as the burqa.\u003cbr/\u003eThat proposal has drawn strong reaction.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The image of the Netherlands abroad will no longer be that of a country that is tolerant of all thoughts and other religions. This law in reality will hurt the Netherland's image abroad more, than Verdonk's (Immigration and Integration Minister) law will hurt women who wear the hijab,\" said Fawaz Jneid, the Imam at the As-Soennah mosque in the Hague.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 6 percent of the Dutch population is Muslim, and in the past Muslims have voted heavily for Labour.\u003cbr/\u003eLawyer Famile Fatma Arslan questioned why there was such a move when very few women in the Netherlands wear the burqa.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Why are we doing this? We have domestic violences problem, we have problems of discrimination on the labour market. We have so many socio-economic problems who (that) deserve our attention. And we are focussing on that piece of clothing,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eBalkenende's Christian Democrats now have 44 seats in the 150-seat lower house, compared with 42 for Labour. \u003cbr/\u003eJunior coalition partner the free-market Liberals have 26. \u003cbr/\u003eAmong another 21 fringe parties, the Socialist Party is expected to make a huge leap from its current nine seats.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ruling coalition collapsed in June after a minor party, D66, pulled out to protest Verdonk's botched attempt to revoke the citizenship of Somali-born lawmaker and strident critic of radical Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.\u003cbr/\u003eThe roughly 10,000 polling stations opened at 7:30 a.m. (0630GMT). \u003cbr/\u003eFirst predictions were expected as soon as they close, at 9 p.m. (2000GMT).\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' 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