Assassination won't stop Dutch vote

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Dutch political leaders, stunned by the assassination of an outspoken right-wing leader, decided Tuesday to go ahead with elections in eight days.

Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by a gunman in the parking lot of a radio station near Amsterdam after a campaign interview Monday. His upstart anti-immigration party was expected to win up to 28 of the 150 seats in the Dutch parliament.

Police arrested a 32-year-old Dutch citizen, but did not release his name or a suspected motive.

Fortuyn's killing was the first assassination in modern Dutch history.

Prime Minister Wim Kok appealed for calm after several hundred protesters, many of them Fortuyn supporters, clashed with riot police outside the parliament complex in The Hague Monday evening.