A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.
Coalition options are complicated.
D66 + GL/PvdA + VVD + CDA is ideally what they want, very broad and centrist, but VVD said they won’t partner with anyone left, and especially not PvdA. Since VVD had better than expected results, they’re keeping their leader, so I expect that promise to stick.
Another route is D66 + all of the left wing parties combined, but getting them all to agree on an agenda led by a centre-left party seems fraught. Also, some of these small left parties have never been in government before and probably don’t have the chops for compromise.
A possibility is D66 + CDA + VVD + JA21, centrists partnering with the right to keep out the left. A tale as old as time! JA21 makes me nervous, basically a more polite version of FvD.
The most likely outcome is a centrist minority government of D66 + CDA + GL/PvdA, and then relying on the left parties or right parties separately to pass the legislation they want based on the topic.
NoPanko@feddit.uk 1 day ago
So this wasn’t a rejection of the far right, just a rejection r of Wilders. Also the left coalition seems to have lost seats. Still though, a much better outcome than some predicted