Overview
- National news agency ANP projects Rob Jetten’s centrist D66 narrowly ahead of Geert Wilders’ PVV, and Jetten has declared victory.
- With all domestic districts counted, D66 leads by roughly 14,081 votes, while overseas postal ballots are due by Monday night and official results are expected next Friday.
- Projections assign about 26 seats each to D66 and PVV in the 150-seat lower house, ensuring protracted coalition talks to reach a 76-seat majority.
- A broad centrist coalition involving VVD, CDA, and the Greens–Labour alliance is viewed as the most viable path, though VVD–Greens/Labour cooperation is uncertain; parliament is set to choose an initial ‘scout’ on Tuesday.
- Wilders raised unsubstantiated doubts about the count as other right-wing parties advanced, with FvD projected at seven seats and JA21 at nine; if confirmed, Jetten would become the Netherlands’ youngest and first openly gay prime minister.