Teaming up to run Holland? Job Cohen, the former mayor of Amsterdam, and his Dutch Labor Party are apparently surging in the polls for Holland's June 9th parliamentary elections. Number 2 on Labor's list is Nebahat Albayrak, a Turk who moved to Holland as a child. I'm no expert on Dutch politics, which consists of more political parties than an American can handle, but this is a pretty incredible development at time of economic uncertainty in the land of Geert Wilder. 

Read the NYTimes's extended piece on the subject here.