THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Dutch voters will go to the polls on in an early general election on Nov. 22, the caretaker government announced Friday, a week after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s four-party coalition quit over its failure to agree a package of measures to rein in migration.
The vote for the 150 seats in the lower chamber of parliament will usher in a new generation of leaders after key members of Mr. Rutte’s fourth governing coalition announced they would leave politics.
Mr. Rutte, the Netherlands’ longest-serving premier, signaled the end of an era when he said Monday he would leave politics once a new coalition has been installed after the elections. That is a process that can take months of negotiations between potential coalition members….
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