Politics and Elections in the Netherlands: coalition agreement presented

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  Assuming the PVV does win a small plurality of seats, and that Wilders tries to form a government, what other parties would be potential coalition allies, or are there any?

I'm guessing that the PVV is like the similar Danish People's Party - the last thing they want is to actually be in government and have to make real, live decisions. They much prefer being able to scream and yell form outside - so even if they are the largest party - they would decline to even try to lead a government...and seriously that other party in the Netherlands wants to be be complicit in making Geert Wilders the PM?

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What I mean is that the DPP has only been willing to support a rightwing coalition from outside. They refuse to have actual cabinet seats in a coalition government and in the last Danish election even though they actually had the largest number of seats of any of the "non-socialist" parties - they had no interest in actually leading the government having their leader be PM - they prefer to sit outside and just have influence

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Is the 50+ party generally seen as leftwing or rightwing?

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Similarly, a bitchfight between VVD and PVV would probably increase turnout in the Netherlands and the same in Germany between CDU/CSU and SPD ...

I don't see much comparison there. In a close race between the CDU and SPD, the party with even one seat more supplies the chancellor - so it actually MATTERS whihc of those parties is bigger. In the Netherlands, it doeasnt really matter whether VVD or PVV is the biggest party since any way you slice it Geert Wilders is NOT going to become PM.

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If this final poll came true - why not cut the VVD out of the action entirely and have a D66/CDA/GL/SP/PvdA (maybe throw in CU too)...and have a centre left gov't with the D66 leader as PM?

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Which party is thought to benefit most from a very high turnout?

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How accurate have Dutch exit polls been in the past?

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The dismal result for the PVV will be a major blow to Marine LePen. She was counting on building on momentum from her Dutch ally

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The dismal result for the PVV will be a major blow to Marine LePen. She was counting on building on momentum from her Dutch ally

No one is going to vote in France based on the dutch general election results lol

I was joking...at least we can now be spared an avalanche of columns and articles about how rightwing xenophobia is sweeping Europe etc...

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Serious what if question here:

If in 2012 the PvdA had won 1 more seat than VVD, the PvdA leader would have become PM instead of Rutte in a "grand coalition". If that had happened, do people think the PvdA would have done much better tonight and the VVD would have been the "junior coalition partner that gets demolished in the subsequent election"?

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Has there ever been a political party in the Netherlands that has been a junior party in a coalition government and NOT been slaughtered in the subsequent election?

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Forgive me for asking a question that may have been answered a long time ago, but what is the difference between CDA and CU? Why aren't they one party?

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If GL joins this coalition, how long before their support in the polls inevitably crashes into low single digits (the fate that seems to befall all parties that agree to be junior partners in coalition governments)