Overview
- D66 and the CDA plan to propose two informateurs on Thursday to guide roughly three weeks of substantive talks on nitrogen policy, housing, the business climate, asylum and migration, international security and the budget.
- Wouter Koolmees advised the parties to start negotiations focused on content without others at the table, invoking the 2021 practice of drafting an initial policy outline before expanding a coalition.
- A two-party D66–CDA government has been floated by negotiator Tim Masselink as a minority option with 44 seats, drawing skepticism from former informateur Uri Rosenthal and caution from Frans Leijnse, who supports beginning with policy.
- A new EenVandaag survey of about 23,000 panel members finds VVD voters frustrated that their party is sidelined, while D66 and CDA voters back the content-first step, and 61 percent overall prefer a majority coalition over a minority.
- Polling shows conditional openness to a D66–VVD–CDA minority arrangement, with 39 percent calling it acceptable and several opposition voter groups willing to let proposals pass, as VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz continues to reject a majority with GroenLinks–PvdA.