Overview
- Dutch news agency ANP’s final tally shows D66 ahead of PVV by about 28,455 votes after roughly 87,000 overseas ballots were counted.
- Despite the vote lead, both parties are projected to hold 26 seats in the 150-seat parliament.
- Rob Jetten is set to start coalition talks on Tuesday by appointing a scout, with a preferred four‑party alliance that would total 86 seats on paper.
- Geert Wilders criticized Jetten’s early victory claim and promoted allegations of irregularities, which local authorities and the Electoral Council have rejected as unfounded.
- The GreenLeft–Labour alliance named Jesse Klaver as its new leader after Frans Timmermans stepped down, positioning the bloc for negotiations.