🇳🇱 A serious coalition crisis is brewing in the Netherlands: Two of the three parties in the coalition, including the ruling party D66 led by Prime Minister Rob Jetten, have reached an extraordinary agreement with two opposition parties regarding a controversial reform.
Dylan Yishilgoz-Zagrios, leader of the VVD party, which holds center and right positions and remained outside the agreement, called it "harmful to the Netherlands," said it "contradicts the coalition agreement," and warned of the possibility of reconsidering cooperation with the coalition partners. "This is not the way we should work with each other," she said.
According to her, if D66 and CDA from the coalition vote together with PRO and Volt from the opposition in today's parliamentary vote, "we will also have to reconsider how this cooperation can continue. ".
D66 and CDA have already stated that they support the agreement and will not renegotiate it, increasing the pressure on the fragile coalition. The coalition of D66, VVD and CDA is a minority government that holds 66 out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 22 out of 75 seats in the Senate.
This is a very rare coalition structure in Dutch politics.