Overview
- With about 95% of votes counted, ANP projects D66 and Geert Wilders’ PVV at 26 seats each, erasing PVV’s lead from 2023.
- Wilders’ party falls sharply from 37 seats two years ago, and he acknowledged it is unlikely the PVV will enter the next cabinet given widespread refusals to work with him.
- D66 leader Rob Jetten hailed the outcome as a mandate for a more positive course and is now the most plausible figure to try to assemble a majority.
- Rot–green leader Frans Timmermans announced his resignation after early projections put GroenLinks–PvdA around 20 seats, triggering a leadership change on the left.
- Coalition building will be complex and protracted under the fragmented system; caretaker premier Dick Schoof remains in place as parties negotiate, with migration and housing central in the campaign and NSC collapsing in support while the CDA gains.