Geert Wilders’ far-right party made strong gains but was edged out by a centre-left Dutch political alliance, according to an exit poll, after the Netherlands kicked off four days of EU-wide elections for the European Parliament. According to the exit poll published by Dutch television on Thursday evening, the social democratic-green alliance of the Labour Party and GroenLinks secured eight of the 31 seats in the European Parliament filled by the Dutch. Wilders’ anti-immigration and anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) was on track to have secured seven seats. Polls ahead of the election had pre…