Five party coalition unlikely as CDA leader rules out GroenLinks PvdA idea
The option of a right-centre-left coalition government including the Labour party and GroenLinks has receded, now that CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra has said he thinks the left-wing parties are too far removed from his own. The five-party coalition had been mooted as the Kaag option – a reference to the wish by D66 leader Sigrid Kaag to replace ChristenUnie with the two left wing parties and form a five party administration. But Hoekstra told reporters on Tuesday, after meeting cabinet negotiator Mariëtte Hamer, that he did not envisage a left-wing block as being part of the next coalition. ChristenUnie, which had been highly critical of VVD leader and prime minister Mark Rutte in the wake of the Pieter Omtzigt affair, would be the logical choice of partner, although its leader Gert-Jan Segers has been keen to stay on the sidelines for now.
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