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Minority coalition looms after Rutte swipes left on PvdA-GL pact
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 18, 2021 11:28pm |
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| Author | DutchNews |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 1, 2021 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The next Dutch government looks likely to be a minority coalition after all other options were categorically ruled out this week.
Almost six months after the general election on March 17, the negotiations to form a new cabinet have not even started because of a deadlock between the two largest parties, VVD and D66, over their preferred partners.
The biggest stumbling block has been the refusal of the right-wing liberal VVD and the Christian Democrats (CDA) to form a coalition with both the Labour party (PvdA) and GroenLinks. Either party has enough seats to secure a majority of MPs for the cabinet, but their leaders, Lilianne Ploumen and Jesse Klaver, have resisted efforts to prise them apart over the summer.
Reforming the previous four-way coalition with the ChristenUnie (CU) is also a non-starter after D66 leader Sigrid Kaag said two weeks ago she was not prepared to do another deal with the CU. The two parties have irreconcilable differences on ethical issues such as euthanasia and abortion.
Caretaker prime minister and VVD leader Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that a coalition of five risked being too unstable. ‘We don’t need both of them [GroenLinks and PvdA] for a majority,’ he said. |
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