US Edition'Populists Can Be Beaten': Dutch Centrist Rob Jetten Claims Election Win
Jetten's D66 and Wilders's PVV each won 26 seats in a 150-seat parliament; coalition talks will be complex due to fragmented party landscape and ideological divides.
- On Friday, Jetten, leader of Democrats 66 , declared victory after ANP said Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party , could not overhaul his lead, with D66 projected at 26 seats.
- After the PVV-led government's collapse, voters concerned about housing and health care shifted preferences amid a fragmented parliament, driving support toward centrist options.
- Coalition arithmetic shows a potential 86-seat majority with CDA , Green/Labour and VVD , while final ballots from Dutch expats favoured Jetten and were tallied in The Hague.
- The Dutch Electoral Council will declare the result on Friday, and Jetten will appoint a 'scout' on Tuesday to explore coalition options.
- The party system has fractured into an unpredictable delta, with the Dutch Left holding barely 20 percent of seats last week and the far-right bloc controlling about 40 seats.
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After the early parliamentary election in the Netherlands, first exploratory talks on the formation of a government coalition begin.
The leader of the Dutch extreme law, Geert Wilders, acknowledged Tuesday's implementation in the early legislative elections held last Wednesday and closed with a very small difference in votes between his formation, the Freedom Party (PVV), and...
Rob Jetten, the progressive leader of D66 (Democrats 66), who won the elections in the Netherlands last Wednesday at the age of 38, faces from this Tuesday a complicated formation of government. As a surprise winner of the elections, he took 28,455 votes in advantage of the Freedom Party (PVV), from the ultra Geert Wilders, but both are equal to 26 seats, he is entitled to be the first to try to build a coalition. Jetten prefers it “by the cente…
The D66 won the elections in the Netherlands. The last votes are counted – but right-wing populist Wilders sows doubts.
The announced victory of the centrist Rob Jetten in the Dutch parliamentary elections was confirmed on Monday 3 November after the counting of the last ballots. The whole question now is whether his party D66 will opt for a coalition with the Labour Alliance-Greens to form the next government, while the search for a coalition is a process that can last several months.
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