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LightningStrikes posted...

Not an expert but my understanding is his party was in talks with three other parties, centrist-ish NSC, centre-right VVD (main governing party for ages) and agrarian BBB but they all ruled out him as PM and wanted none of the party leaders in cabinet. So it looks like theyre going ahead with a cabinet from outside the parliament. Probably the best reasonable outcome as it means there presumably wont be a far-right PM and he also wont be able to hide from blame in opposition.

Dutchman here. That is correct. Though Geert is 'subtly' blaming the BBB and NSC parties moreso and is already whining about this being against his constitutional rights. (Its not)
Man its a real pity he is the only actual party member of his party, or else he could have appointed one of his followers as PM instead.

Instead we now have weird requests that lead to the most popular candidate being someone from the left party???? (because he was the formateur, but still)

edit: Also they want to form an extra-parliamentary coalition between the 4 of them now, which is even harder to explain. Basically they cant align their interests no matter how hard they try, so instead they are just gonna rule on a broad strokes program (with more chances for input from outside the coalition) instead of an ironclad agreement plan.