In the poll by De Hond the PVV is also going down one seat. The virtually lost seats of the VVD and PVV benefit D66 (+1), FvD (+1), PvdD (+1), Volt (+1), JA21 (+2) and BBB (+1).
Failed reconnaissance
De Hond links the VVD seat reduction to the hassle surrounding the failed reconnaissance and outgoing prime minister and VVD leader Mark Rutte in recent days. Rutte survived a parliamentary debate about this with difficulty.
He had to go through the dust quite a bit, as can be seen in this video:
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It revolved around the question of who had spoken to the then scouts Ollongren and Jorritsma about the position of the critical Member of Parliament Pieter Omtzigt. Rutte eventually admitted that he had been, but said that he had remembered the conversation ‘wrong’.
The opposition filed a motion of no confidence, accusing Rutte of a lie. Rutte’s intended coalition partners D66 and CDA came with a motion of censure, which was supported by a majority.
Part of the VVD supporters also support motion
In De Hond’s survey, participants were also presented with what they would have done if they had been in the House of Representatives and had to vote on the two motions. More than half (54 percent) of the Dutch had then voted in favor of the motion of no confidence, 26 percent also in favor of the motion of censure. Also among VVD voters, 37 percent would have voted in favor of one of the two motions. 20 percent of the Dutch would not have supported either motion.
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The participants were also asked whether the party they voted for should participate in a new cabinet if Rutte becomes prime minister. Of the voters of the current three government partners, a majority thinks that that party should not rule with Mark Rutte: D66: 68 percent, CDA: 57 percent and ChristenUnie: 57 percent.
Of the voters of JA21, 51 percent think so, and among the VVD voters 77 percent think that the VVD can govern with Rutte as prime minister.
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