Rutte touted his Liberal-led government?s economic record, while Wilders said it would be untenable to exclude his Freedom Party from a coalition if it scored highly.
The leaders of the eight largest parties held a televised debate Sunday night in Amsterdam -- minus Wilders, who refused to take part.
Five parties in contention to place first with nine days to goThe Dutch election was wide open going into the last full week of campaigning, as support for the populist message of Geert Wilders declined and Prime Minister Mark Rutte failed to pick up the balance.
?What I sense is that people are coming back to my party,? Rutte said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Saturday while campaigning in Barendrecht in the province of South-Holland.
?Wilders has been less visible in the last couple of weeks,? said Maurice de Hond, owner and founder of pollster Peil.nl, explaining his declining support.
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