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Exit poll for the 2025 Dutch parliamentary election, presented by NOS TV. Photograph: NOS TVShare<\/a><\/p>\nUpdated at\u00a016.33 EDT<\/p>\n
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Wilders concedes PVV party unlikely to be part of next government<\/p>\n
Geert Wilders is now speaking to reporters, reacting to tonight\u2019s vote and answering their questions.<\/p>\n
He concedes his party will probably not be part of the new government if D66 is confirmed as the election winner, but insists the decision to leave the previous government \u2013 and trigger the vote \u2013 was still correct and he doesn\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.17 EDT<\/p>\n in Rotterdam<\/p>\n Earlier, a sigh went around the room of the GL\/PvdA\u2019s election night when the result was announced.<\/p>\n GL\/PvdA (GreenLeft\/Labour) members react after the second exit polls place the party in fourth position, with the liberal D66 leading and the far-right PVV in second during the general election. Photograph: Pierre Crom\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Annecornelie de Pont, who organises party campaigning in Amstelveen, was disappointed.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t expect it,\u201d she said. \u201cJetten and Bontenbal were the new kids on the block but Timmermans is the most experienced politician,\u201d she added, speaking before his resignation.<\/p>\n She said, though, that the party would make the best of the result and are likely to be part of the next government.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Timmermans resigns as GroenLinks-PvDA leader<\/p>\n GroenLinks-PvdA\u2019s leader and former EU commissioner Frans Timmermans has resigned from his post in a speech responding to first exit poll.<\/p>\n Frans Timmermans, of the centre-left GroenLinks-PvDA, onstage in Rotterdam. Photograph: Patrick Post\/AP<\/p>\n He said he had to take \u201cfull responsibility\u201d for the lower than expected result, with party going down from 25 to 20 seats, and added: \u201cIt is time for me to take a step back and hand over the leadership of our movement to the next generation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have so much incredible talent in the parliamentary group that will soon be entering the house.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.18 EDT<\/p>\n Wilders concedes party ‘hoped for different outcome’<\/p>\n PVV\u2019s Wilders has offered his first reaction to the vote on X<\/a>, conceding that \u201cthe party had hoped for a different outcome, but we stood our ground\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are more determined to fight than ever and still the second and perhaps even largest party of the Netherlands<\/a>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.10 EDT<\/p>\n D66’s upward trend ‘clearly accelerated’ with ‘obvious’ coalition emerging \u2013 comment<\/p>\n Reacting to the exit poll, the Centre for European Reform\u2019s senior research fellow Armida van Rij told the Guardian:<\/p>\n \u201cClearly D66\u2019s upward trend accelerated. The firewall being brought back around the PVV may have turned voters off and brought them to JA21 in particular.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most obvious coalition based on the numbers would be D66, VVD, GL\/PVDA, CDA \u2026 but that will take a long time as VVD leader Ye\u015filg\u00f6z has repeatedly said she wanted a rightwing coalition.\u201d<\/p>\n Van Rij said that VVD\u2019s better-than-expected result could save Ye\u015filg\u00f6z\u2019s future, as previous polls had suggested the party could lose more seats.<\/p>\n \u201cHer staying will have implications for the negotiations as she has brought the VVD far closer to the Freedom party on policies, especially immigration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n On the left, \u201cGL\/PvdA losing five seats is unexpected and may make Timmermans\u2019s future as party leader uncertain\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut as ever, to some extent elections and electoral success is measured by expectations, and that\u2019s the case here too.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.59 EDT<\/p>\n Win for ‘positive, constructive’ politics, but coalition talks will be ‘tricky’ \u2013 comment<\/p>\n Commenting on the exit poll, Rem Korteweg, a senior fellow at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, told the Guardian that \u201cwhen it comes to forming a new government in the Netherlands<\/a>, election results are not the end, they\u2019re the start\u201d.<\/p>\n He says:<\/p>\n \u201cThe results are in and the cards have been shuffled. Now the negotiations can begin.<\/p>\n Liberal D66 emerges as the big winner, having benefited substantially in the final weeks of the campaign. It is quite a surprise. Rob Jetten now has a big chance to be the country\u2019s youngest prime minister (and the first openly gay one).<\/p>\n CDA wins big as well and finds itself in the role of a kingmaker, able to leverage its position between the rightwing VVD and leftwing GreenLeft\/Labour.<\/p>\n Other surprise though is how well the VVD did, given what the polls looked like earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n Korteweg added that Wilders, in second, will now lead the opposition, \u201ca place he has been comfortable with over the years\u201d.<\/p>\n He also confirms our earlier calculations (21:29<\/a>) that \u201cthere is one most-likely option for a coalition government: a four-party coalition of centrist parties led by D66\u201d.<\/p>\n Korteweg says that \u201cwith four parties, coalition talks will be tricky\u201d as the parties \u201cshare a common resolve to exclude Wilders from power, but disagree on other things such as migration, fixing the housing crisis, reducing emissions and how to pay for additional defence spending\u201d.<\/p>\n He adds:<\/p>\n \u201cA more positive, constructive approach to politics has prevailed in this campaign, as voters have signalled they are fed up with the internal mudslinging and ineffectual chaos that has defined government over the previous 11 months.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.12 EDT<\/p>\n No changes in updated exit poll<\/p>\n The updated exit poll at 9.30pm local time shows the main projections unchanged, with D66 still expected to come first, ahead of Wilders\u2019 PVV.<\/p>\n Updated exit poll for the 2025 Dutch parliamentary election, presented by NOS TV Photograph: NOS TV<\/p>\n The error margin is now down to \u201cone, maximum two\u201d seats, NOS said, but in this case it is just enough to still reshuffle the first three positions a bit.<\/p>\n So, it remains too close to call at this stage.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.44 EDT<\/p>\n First potential coalition scenarios emerge Dutch broadcaster NOS just showed some potential coalition scenarios for a D66-led government, including a scenario in which they team up with GL\/PvdA, VVD and CDA (potentially having 89 out of 150 votes in the new parliament), or an alternative with VVD, CDA and JA21, which the exit poll has at nine seats, getting it just over the line with 78 seats.<\/p>\n But there appears to a path to securing the majority without the participation of the far right.<\/p>\n But, but, but \u2013 as said earlier \u2013 it\u2019s still very early days, and the process will take months.<\/p>\n If only it was as easy as just adding numbers up on paper!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.34 EDT<\/p>\n D66 supporters erupt in joy after first exit poll resultsDemocrats 66 (D66) party members celebrate after the polls closed in the Dutch general election, in Leiden, the Netherlands. Photograph: Robin Utrecht\/EPA<\/p>\n And here is D66\u2019s leader, Rob Jetten, arriving at the results party earlier tonight \u2026<\/p>\n Leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) party Rob Jetten (R) arrives with his husband, Nicolas Keenan, for his party\u2019s results evening in Leiden. Photograph: Robin Utrecht\/ANP\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.28 EDT<\/p>\n If you\u2019re wondering just how difficult the coalition talks could get in the coming months, the exit poll suggests there may be as many as 15 parties in the next parliament.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.17 EDT<\/p>\n I just need to stress our usual caveat applicable to all election nights, but even more important tonight as the complex setup makes it really difficult to make perfect predictions: this is only the exit poll, and it has a margin of error that makes it effectively \u201ctoo close to call\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.18 EDT<\/p>\n If D66 is confirmed as the largest party in the next parliament, it will be a historic result for them \u2013 the party has never been in that position before, AD notes.<\/a><\/p>\n Share<\/a>Centrist D66 party provisionally expected to win most seats, but ‘too close to call’<\/p>\n Centrist D66 party is expected to win the most seats in the new parliament, with 27 mandates \u2013 up from just nine in 2023, NOS exit poll has showed.<\/p>\n Wilders\u2019 PVV is projected to come second with 25 seats, 12 down from 2023.<\/p>\n VVD is projected third with 23, GroenLinks-PvDA fourth with 20, and CDA fifth with 19.<\/p>\n The exit poll has the margin error of up to three seats, so NOS says it\u2019s \u201ctoo close to call\u201d.<\/p>\n Exit poll for the 2025 Dutch parliamentary election, presented by NOS TV. Photograph: NOS TVShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.33 EDT<\/p>\n The exit poll is imminent now.<\/p>\n I will bring you the numbers as soon as we have them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>‘Neck and neck race’ between four parties, pollster says Pollster Bart Koenen, who works for Verian on polls for EenVandaag, told the Guardian a bit earlier that the result was on a knife-edge.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be exciting.<\/p>\n The two national polls that followed ours showed the PVV is in decline and that it\u2019s going to be a neck and neck race between the PVV, PvdA\/GL, CDA, and D66.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Senay](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Senay_Boztas.png\")
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