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Credit: Reuters/Stringer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch troops are likely to leave Afghanistan this year as planned, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said on Sunday, as early polls showed his rivals benefiting from the government's collapse over the mission. World Balkenende's fourth cabinet in the last eight years fell apart on Saturday morning after the Labour Party pulled out of government, insisting it could not support a NATO request to extend the Dutch mission past this year. NATO had asked the Netherlands, among the top 10 contributing nations to the mission, to look into the possibility of a longer stay. "If nothing else will take its place, then it ends," Balkenende told Dutch current affairs television program Buitenhof in an interview on Sunday. The 2,000-strong Dutch contingent is due to start leaving the Afghan province Uruzgan in August and Balkenende bemoaned the impact of the pullout on the Dutch standing internationally. "The image of the Netherlands is far from flourishing abroad. They do not understand what we are doing," he said. "The moment the Netherlands says as sole and first country we will no longer have activities at the end of 2010, it will raise questions in other countries and this really pains me." POLLS FAVOR PULLOUT However, the first poll to come out following the cabinet's fall indicated the public supported Labour's move to end both the mission and the current government. The Maurice de Hond poll showed Labour gaining four seats in the next parliament to 19 compared with a week ago. Balkenende's Christian Democrats (CDA) lost one seat, to 26. However, the CDA still leads the poll, with Labour a firm fifth. Balkenende's personal support, however, is much less than that of his party. The poll showed only 16 percent support for Balkenende as the next prime minister. More clarity on the next government is expected this week when the leaders of the fallen cabinet and other top officials meet Queen Beatrix on Monday to discuss next steps. A general election is widely expected to be held in May or June. In the meantime, the parties will also be campaigning aggressively for municipal elections on March 3. Balkenende said there was a constitutional possibility that elections will not be held until the originally scheduled May 2011 date, but added that this was a matter for the Queen's advisers and the political leaders in parliament. "We will get elections, a new government will come and then it will be a question of making the Netherlands stronger and let's put our energy into that," Balkenende said. BUDGETS OVER AFGHANISTAN Labour leader Wouter Bos, also the incumbent finance minister, is already making the budget and not Afghanistan the main issue for those elections. 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