Politics and Elections in the Netherlands: coalition agreement presented

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Any reactions from prominent D66ers on the immigration part? They do get the increase in UN refugees, while basically accepting the rest of the status quo. The government must really hope that immigration questions do not pop up very often, since this seem perhaps the most obvious topic to tear apart the government with D66 (and CU, I guess) trying to draw its leftward, while VVD and CDA wants it furter right to avoid further losses to PVV and FvD.

Great that elected mayors are finally a thing. Will it be indirect through majorities in council (hopefully) or presidential contests? Also quite happy to see the referendum law go; really hate this "collect signatures online, get referendum".

The economic stuff is hard to judge without knowing the Dutch system in details. I am generally in favour of quite flexible labour laws, as long as there are good social security programs who quickly enter into force. Prefer relatively high property taxation, which seems like the direction the government programme is taking. So generally, I am quite positive, but it sounds like it might be a bit to right-wing for the average voter as well as creating enemies in several different areas, so it will be interesting to see how much ends up getting passed.

Map of government support in the election:

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And being Foreign Affairs Minister probably helps Zijlstra's chances to be the next VVD leader, but that doesn't really matter because the other candidate (Dijkhoff) is just as awesome .

Maybe I've missed it in the thread, but will Dijkhoff keep an important position in the new cabinet? Danish Minister of Immigration Inger Støjberg has talked about a close relationsship with him and the Belgian Immigration Minister Theo Francken, so I guess he is among the hardliners in VVD on immigration?