VideoD66 leader Sigrid Kaag wants to negotiate a broad majority coalition with VVD, D66, CDA, PvdA, GroenLinks and ChristenUnie. She said this this afternoon at a party meeting in Amsterdam. Recently, Kaag did not want to get into the cabinet with two Christian parties. It is now opening the door to relaunch the temporary treasury.
Peter Winterman
Last updated:
09-26-21, 21:23
“Concession” is what Kaag calls her proposal for a broad alliance with six parties. “We are ready to lift the political blockade,” the D66 leader said. Let’s sit down with six constructive parties. First and foremost is the national interest.”
In recent weeks, Kaag has not wanted to enter the cabinet with current coalition partners CDA and ChristenUnie. ‘The rudder needs to be changed,’ Kaag said of this on this site last month. But last week – in “General Policy Reflections” – VVD, D66, CDA and ChristenUnie struck a deal on next year’s budget.
‘Terrain’
“I saw in the last week that a broad majority can talk to each other in the debate,” Kaag now says. “This is convenient. But why not be able to do it in the national government? Let us build a balanced and decisive cabinet in the best Dutch tradition.”
It has become painfully clear in recent weeks that the minority coalition cannot function without unwavering support in Parliament
With this, the D66 leader seems to have definitively drawn a line through the minority government’s choice. Detective Johan Remix will consider this possibility next week. Tomorrow morning he will talk further with VVD Leader Mark Rutte and Kaag and CDA Leader Wopke Hoekstra about formation. “It has become painfully clear that minority building simply cannot succeed without imaginable stable support in Parliament,” says Kaag.
The question is whether Roti and Hoekstra feel the same way. VVD and CDA have consistently indicated that they do not want a cabinet with PvdA and GroenLinks. The two left-wing parties remained cohesive throughout the line-up. Outgoing Prime Minister Ruti said he fears the five-party government is too unstable. It seems unlikely that he will agree with a six-party government.
Nor did the D66 proposal to form a six-party coalition come out of nowhere. At the end of August, Kaag wrote on her party’s website that she had proposed him earlier: “In order to break the deadlock, I had already proposed this formation – before the summer – to add Christinoni to a broad six-party cabinet. . This was then blocked by VVD and CDA. So now try again.
But they don’t rule out a restart of the current temporary treasury, says Kaag: “If you start with six—without giving a saying where it may not end and may end—all variations are of course possible. We’ve raised the bar. Then you don’t have to be childish about a less desirable outcome.”
Minority Cabinet
Christian Democrat leader Hoekstra said last Friday that he thinks the most obvious thing is to “continue with the existing coalition”. ‘But well, that’s no longer possible,'” he said at once. So we are talking about a minority government. I’ve already indicated that I want to look constructively at our variant of the three of us: a minority cabinet with VVD, D66 and CDA. However, Kaag does not want to hear about this.
Informateur Remkes wants to “draw conclusions” this week about the possibilities for a minority government. It remains unclear what Remix will do if the two sides do not change their stance. He can then redo his assignment as a detective, or he’ll look for another solution.
ChristenUnie leader Gert Jan Segers did not close the door to the D66, he says in an interview on this site. “I see medical ethics getting pretty big. While there have been a lot of moments where D66 and ChristenUnie have stood shoulder to shoulder over the past four years,” Segers said.
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