Den Haag: Politics is in a deadlock in the Netherlands after the general election, with the new government is invisible and a myriad of small parties that eat traditional electric bases.
Mark Rutte’s Prime Minister must postpone forming the next cabinet until after summer vacation, leaving the government out to handle routine businesses.
Without a clear winner after voting in March and more small parties from the previous house at 150 seats, the “Dutch” Polder Model “from consensus politics was in danger of being a victim of its own success, experts said.
Ten of the 18 parties now in parliament hold five seats or fewer makes the political landscape more fragmented than before and then complicate the subsequent government development process.
New parties include Volt and JA21 progressive, pro-Europe, split-offs of the populist forum for democracy, each of which collects three seats.
“Political balls are increasingly pulling into themselves, afraid of each other, afraid of other people’s ideas,” said Laurens Dassen, who led MPS Volt in Parliament.
But he said he trusted even three seats, effectively 2.5 percent of the total votes of more than 10 million, could shake things in parliament.
“Actually, three many,” he told AFP.
But analysts say three seats rarely carry quite heavy.
The proliferation of small parties and the absence of the default threshold which certainly leads to a period of old negotiations that can end in polls that are deadlock and even fresh, analysts said.
This is precisely the Gordian knot waiting for Rutte.
The Liberal Center-right VVD party won 34 seats while the D66 Progressive Minister of Foreign Trade Siigrid Kaag came second with 24.
With a combined calculation of 58, the Rutte-Kaag coalition requires at least two other parties with a series of conditions to form a majority.
Both were assigned to develop political programs to revive sufficient support from other parties to collect coalitions when negotiations began again at the end of August.
“The Dutch proportional electoral system is one of the most open systems in the world,” said Koen Damhuis, a political scientist at Utrecht University.
The participation of a large number of parties as a record of 38 in 2021 in the national poll “really gave selection voters and made them feel more represented,” he told AFP.
However, “This fragmentation makes the government formation more complicated.” The government becomes more fragile, which in turn can trigger reluctance to the ruling parties, “Damhuis said.
The debris of traditional political parties is not unique to the Netherlands and has spread to the Netherlands and has spread to the Netherlands and has spread to the Netherlands and has spread to the Netherlands And has spread to the Netherlands.
Other European countries, the phenomenon analyst called “domicikasi” politics.
Despite trading political horse, Rutte, who has also been hit by a series of scandals, seems to be determined for the fourth term of office in the office.
But he suffered a heavy blow.
Narrow that persisted from voting without confidence in early April for the handling of coalition talks when he was accused of making efforts to control parliamentarians bluntly.
Dubbed “Teflon Mark” after avoiding a series of political decline, Rutte needs to work hard to regain party trust Enter the coalition.