Overview
- Informateur Rianne Letschert began meetings with opposition parties to test support for a cabinet that lacks majorities in both the House and the Senate.
- The three parties hold 66 of 150 seats in the Tweede Kamer and are 54 seats short in the Eerste Kamer, forcing an issue‑by‑issue strategy to assemble votes.
- PVV signaled it will not cooperate, while BBB refused to back cuts to healthcare and restated farmer expropriation as a red line.
- GroenLinks‑PvdA called the minority course unwise and says the VVD excluded it, and JA21 said it will be critical after being denied a place in the coalition.
- CDA leader Henri Bontenbal floated allowing opposition parties to supply ministers, an idea GroenLinks‑PvdA rejected, as the trio works toward an end‑of‑month formation deadline.