2006 Dutch election

[Colin]

VVD almost certainly.

BRTD VVD is a liberal party. It's a right of centre liberal party much like the Free Democrats in Germany, the Flemish Liberals and Democrats in Belgium, Venestre in Denmark, and the Reform Party in Estonia. It's part of a large group of European market liberal parties that are usually considered to be liberal and belong to such groups as Liberal International and European Liberal Democrats and Reform party.

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Probably CDA, VVD, LPF coalition much like Balkenende I.

[Colin]

Is PVV Geert Wilders breakaway party?

And who were the two MPs that broke away and joined this EenNL party?

What does that stand for anyway? EenNL?

[Colin]

I'd vote for the Christian Democratic Appeal, though I would also put the Christian Union in consideration.   

I didn't know you were a Calvinist theocrat Frodo?

[Colin]

Politieke Barometer Poll 11/20

CDA 27.7% 43 Seats
PvdA 23.9% 37 Seats
SP 15.6% 24 Seats
VVD 12.7% 20 Seats
GL 5.0% 8 Seats
CU 3.2% 5 Seats
D66 2.4% 3 Seats
Wilders 2.3% 3 Seats
SGP 1.8% 2 Seats
LPF 1.7% 2 Seats
EenNL 1.3% 2 Seats
PvdD 1.2% 1 Seat

Wilders is Partij vd Vrijheid the breakaway party formed by Geert Wilders. PvdD is the Party for the Animals.

CDA-VVD has 63 Seats. Even include ChristenUnie and the small right-wing parties, which I doubt could actually get along, they still only have 75 seats out of 76 needed.

PvdA-SP-GL has 69 seats but with the exception of possibly Party of the Animals and D66 they have no other coalition partners for an all left coalition.

PvdA-VVD-D66, a restablishment of the Purple Cabinet of Wim Kok, has 60 seats.

PvdA-CDA grand coalition has 80 seats or a majority of 4. This is the only option with a majority as of the latest polls. If there is a higher vote for any of the smaller parties then this option also becomes impracticle. Thus you could have a CDA-PvdA-VVD coalition but that would probably be too right wing for the PvdA or a PvdA-SP-CDA coalition which would be too left wing for the CDA.

[Colin]

Oh so the Netherlands is Open List PR I'm guessing? Interesting. What were your reasons for voting CDA or are they your "default" party?

[Colin]

75%  Counted

CDA 41
PvdA 33
VVD 22
SP 25
Fortuyn 0
GL 7
D66 3
CU 6
SGP 2
PvdD 2
PVV 9

Well SP is doing well and little above pre-election polls. VVD is also holding its own but is pretty much where I thought it would be. CDA is a few seats lower and Wilder's Party did really well. 9 Seats, I had expected at most 5 seats.

[Colin]

Where is a good place to find results and seat totals? I only see vote totals.

[Colin]

Would a CDA-VVD-PVV-CU-SGP coalition work?

No. SGP would never be in a coalition and all the other parties would leave that coalition if it joined. They are theocratic Calvinists, even more than yourself Bono, and none of those parties would want anything to do with them.

As for the others getting VVD and CU together would be like herding cats and there is a lot of bad blood between the VVD and Wilders group, though a CDA-VVD-CU-PvdV coalition is somewhat likely. Most likely is that Wilders will provide outside support for a conservative coalition.