Overview
- Presenting his final report, verkenner Wouter Koolmees advises D66 and CDA to negotiate for three weeks on a “positive agenda” under one or more informateurs.
- After that track, other parties would judge whether the agenda offers enough common ground to join further coalition talks.
- Koolmees reports broad appetite for a D66–CDA–VVD core, notes a four-party majority requires VVD–GroenLinks-PvdA cooperation that the VVD rules out, and records the VVD’s preference to look to JA21.
- He cautions against prematurely excluding combinations involving D66, GroenLinks-PvdA, VVD, CDA and JA21 while policy contours are being drawn.
- The Tweede Kamer will debate the report on Thursday and is expected to appoint an informateur, as 70 outgoing MPs make way for a largely refreshed chamber on Wednesday.