At the Flying Dutchman restaurant in the fishing village of Volendam in the Netherlands, chefs are busy battering bite-sized chunks of locally caught cod for their speciality dish of "kibbeling".
But on Saturday, the Flying Dutchman had a bigger political fish to fry: hosting far-right leader Geert Wilders for a meet-and-greet campaign stop five days before national elections.
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