Overview
- The ANP vote service reports D66 ahead by about 15,155 votes over PVV, with both parties on 26 seats and D66 possibly gaining a 27th after remaining ballots are counted.
- Final certification is pending as roughly 90,000 overseas votes and some local counts are still being tallied, and the largest party customarily gets the first attempt at forming a government.
- D66 leader Rob Jetten is the frontrunner to try to build a coalition and would be the youngest prime minister in Dutch history if he succeeds.
- Geert Wilders’ PVV drops from 37 seats in 2023 to about 26 and remains isolated after other major parties reiterated they will not join him in government.
- Parliament is set to remain highly fragmented with around 15 parties, meaning coalition arithmetic will be complex and could involve at least four partners, with VVD, CDA and GL-PvdA discussed as potential participants.