Party - Current Seats-Projected Seats
CDA 44-43 PvdA 42-37 VVD 28-20 SP 9-24 Fortuyn 8-2 GroenLinks 8-8 D66 6-3 ChristenUnie 3-5 SGP 2-2 Wilders 0-3 EénNL 0-2 Animal Party 0-1
Source: Barometer
My city Amsterdam and some other small communities will be voting with an old-style red-pencil.
This is what the group "we-dont-trust-voting-computers" is primarily about. The manufacturers and the government so far have denied that this is a problem.
Personally I agree with the view that voting computers are a bad solution for a non-existent problem.
Partij voor de Dieren (Pro-animal party) Animal Mob SP (Socialists) the classic protest alternative, conservative and suspicious of the powers of the European Union, has become an acceptable option at the left. GroenLinks (Greens) progressive heart of the left. individual freedom, emancipation, equality in wealth distribution, left liberal model, balance between economic growth and ecological/ environmental responsibility PvdA (Labour) liberal, humanist and feminist ideas, modernizing as it went along. the biggest centre-left party Democraten 66 - D66 (Social Liberals) D66 formed the third (and last) party of the government coalition for the [current government] CDA (ChristianDemocrats) -- Centre A coalition party of the current government readily embraces members adhering other faiths than Christian ones. VVD (Liberals) -- Cerntre right formed the second important leg to the [current government], [pro] welfare state, progressive in individual rights, market liberalisation, private entrepreneurship. ChristenUnie (ChristianUnion) -- Centre right more conservative than VVD and CDA, Socially, remarkable program, could just as easily class the ChristianUnion as a conservative party at the left. SGP (Political Reformed Party) -- Centre right The Dutch Christian Fundies. Fortuyn (Fortuynists) -- Hard right Good riddance. EénNL (Hard-Right, former Fortuynists) -- Hard right His choices on immigration and integration, bring him to the right of the spectre. Groep Wilders / Partij voor de Vrijheid (Wilders Group, former VVD) -- Hard right "tsunami of islamisation" , Extremely libertarian, Opposes further EU enlargements, wants to scrap the European Parliament.
Too exhausted with politics now... Need... air...
CDA-VVD: 63 seats PvdA-SP-GroenLinks: 69 CDA-PvdA: 80
Needed for the majority: 76
Basically seems like a CDA-PvdA coalition or bust.
A centre-right minority coalition would need the support of all the small right parties plus both of the small christian parties. This is not a sufficient basis. The CDA and VVD will need to get more seats, at least 70 between them, which I don't think is on the cards.
A left minority coalition would need the support of D66 and the ChristenUnie. That's less, but the differences between the three left parties are too big for them to be able to hold together as a minority government.
Other combinations are currently unthinkable.
An interesting question: could a third party be added to the CDA-PvdA coalition? I'm thinking either GroenLinks or the ChristenUnie. Maybe the differences there are not too great to be overcome...
