PvdA leader Lilianne Ploumen sees ‘no role at all’ for her party to make the continuation of the previous coalition a success. “We are going into the opposition,” she said on Twitter.
Volt is also reluctant. “We are not one of the negotiating parties, and as soon as they are there we assess proposals on their merits in the House. We have a constructive attitude as long as the plans are good enough.”
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SGP is always willing to contribute ideas, but the small Christian party finds it ‘not logical’ that it would supply ministers.
Constructive center
One-man Liane den Haan would like to join the conversation. “I want a lot of things to happen on elderly policy,” she says. Whether she herself aspires to a position in the cabinet is not immediately important to her. As far as she is concerned, ‘the figures’ are only relevant in the last phase of the formation process and she believes that with her one seat she would be ‘last’ turn for a post.
Yesterday, the five parties of ‘the constructive centre’ were still at the table with Remkes and the four parties that are now going to negotiate a new cabinet. The informateur had invited them because they supported the motion in which the House called on him to look at a minority cabinet. The group leaders were filmed around that meeting:
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According to PvdA member Ploumen, Remkes draws conclusions ‘that we do not share and that have not been discussed that way’. Remkes said there was an ‘open invitation’ for the five parties to support a new cabinet consisting of VVD, CDA, D66 and CU in various ways. This can be done, for example, with agreements about the administrative culture, budgets or other parts of the government programme. They are even given the opportunity to supply ministers at a later date, without entering into a coalition themselves.
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But the PvdA is not prepared to do so, Ploumen writes. Her party will in no way support this proposed cabinet, which is a continuation of the current government coalition. “Not in negotiations, not in delivering the ministers.”
Slap in the face
GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver also does not think about ‘providing tolerance support or ministers to a right-wing cabinet’. He thinks it is ‘a slap in the face to voters that this is the conclusion after seven months, while the cabinet has fallen because of the allowance affair. Now they just continue in the same composition. I really don’t think that’s possible. Change has been promised, but it’s not happening.”
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Klaver points out that plans must also obtain a majority in the Senate. The intended coalition of VVD, D66, CDA and CU does not have that with 32 of the 75 seats.
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