Discussions about forming a new government in the Netherlands will now move to more substantive negotiations, after far-right leader Geert Wilders admitted that he could not become prime minister, according to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”. The Guardian newspaper.
Kim Potters, the former Socialist senator overseeing the discussions, will report on the negotiations on Thursday. This document will stipulate that the four parties concerned, the Party for Freedom (PVV), the liberal-conservative VVD, the agrarian BBB and the center-right New Social Contract (NSC), will be able to create an “additional parliamentary” cabinet, made up of experts from outside the country. Politics or have few relationships with political parties Public Radio NOS.
This agreement also means that the leaders of the four parties will retain their seats in Parliament, instead of assuming the role of ministers. This is a requirement for the National Security Council to support a Freedom Party majority government.
If this plan comes to fruition, the coalition agreement will be shorter and less specific, and Parliament will have greater influence on policy. The last time the Netherlands adopted this type of government was in 1918.
The formation of a government in the Netherlands may be closer, approximately four months after the Freedom Party, led by Wilders, won the legislative elections, but without an absolute majority. “Love for my country and my voters is greater and more important than my position,” Wilders said. social network (formerly Twitter), after the lack of support from the parties with which he was trying to form a government coalition, which dictated that Geert Wilders not take the position of Prime Minister.
