Six local parties in towns where Geert Wilders is planning to field candidates in next year’s local elections are considering becoming PVV units, according to research by current affairs show Nieuwsuur.

Wilders hopes to win seats in 60 of the 390 local authority areas in the Netherlands in the 2018 vote and has appealed for potential councillors to come forward.

Two parties have already decided to become part of the PVV and four others are considering the option, Nieuwsuur said.

‘We are both in the right-wing social corner, but I first need to discuss becoming part of the PVV with the rest of the party,’ Harry Poppelier, of Trots op Purmerend, told the programme.

The PVV has, until now, only contested the local elections in The Hague and Almere.