Four parties have agreed to pursue ‘extra-parliamentary’ cabinet, says mediator overseeing tense coalition talks
Dutch coalition talks will move on from exploratory discussions to more concrete negotiations aimed at forming a largely technocratic government, after the far-right leader Geert Wilders accepted he could not be prime minister.
Four months after Wilders’ anti-Islam Freedom party (PVV) became the largest in parliament, Kim Putters, the former socialist senator overseeing the talks, said they would continue based on a cabinet of political veterans and outside experts.
In a keenly awaited report released on Thursday, Putters said the four parties involved – PVV, the liberal-conservative VVD, the agrarian BBB and the centre-right newcomer NSC – had agreed to pursue an “extra-parliamentary” government.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/formation-dutch-government-advances-far-right-wilders-admits-cant-be-pm
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