All eyes are on the election of the Lower House in the Netherlands due to take place tomorrow, Wednesday 15th March. Yesterday there was the last TV debate between the resigning prime minister, Mark Rutte, of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, and Geert Wilders, Populist leader of the Freedom Party. The Dutch scene however is all prey to “uncertainty”, as explained to SIR by Daniëlle Woestenberg, senior legal advisor on Church-State Relations: “especially among people who fear globalisation, who have lost their jobs, who suffer because of reduced welfare. Not because of racism”. Mark Rutte’s government, which has been in office since 2010, had to face the economic crisis just by reducing the welfare budget, increasing retirement age and restraining rules on temporary employment agreements. There’s lots of uncertainty about the results too: 28 parties will be competing with each other, and they are “very, very different from each other”, Woestenberg says: surveys find that “only 40% of voters will go to vote” and, according to the latest surveys, about 13% of them seem to support Wilders (16% for Rutte): “we should not overestimate his popularity”, Woestenberg concludes. How will Christians vote? ChristenUnie, GroenLinks, led by Jesse Klaver, “very popular among young people”, and of course the Christian Democratic Appeal for the more liberal ones, while the more conservative ones seem to prefer the Reformed Political Party and Rutte.