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Katja Bego
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Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House | international security, geopolitics and geoeconomics of tech, Europe | Currently ✍️ a book on subsea cables (Polity '26) | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
True! I don't dispute that D66 will end up with most votes, but the 15,000 gap is not yet the final vote count.

Several tends of thousands of votes are still missing.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Not quite the final vote count - they've just said it's mathematically impossible for the PVV to catch up.

Mail-in votes from abroad and one -rather pro-PVV- town haven't been added yet.
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Een ander verschil is deze keer wel dat de VVD de rest niet echt in dezefde houdgreep heeft.

Ze zullen de premier niet leveren, en technisch gezien kan de rest van coalitie verder door zelfs als de VVD er uit zou stappen (met 64 een minderheid, maar niet een onoverbrugbaar)
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Moet ook nog maar zien of het CDA daar wel zin in heeft. Hebben hun les inmiddels ook wel geleerd.
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Nee, zeker niet.
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Er zal ook teleurstelling zijn onder het (grote) deel van de partij dat al aan het voorsorteren was op een nieuwe leider - niet bepaald een stabiele situatie…
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
(Ironically, it was the one time that they didn't - 2023 - that he actually ended up winning).
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I guess that even if D66 doesn’t become the biggest party, Jetten could still become a sort of compromise “acceptable to all” (ie VVD) PM - Borgen style.

Underpricing a Timmermans premiership imo (lots more competition on the centre right for the final seats)
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Erg goede aflevering - de provincialisering van Nederland.

Vorige week ook een stukje over geschreven www.chathamhouse.org/2025/10/dutc...
The Dutch elections are an opportunity for the Netherlands to regain its international influence
After the collapse of its short-lived right-wing government, traditional parties may make a comeback in a ‘middle coalition’ that is more likely to be stable and proactive – a shift that will be welco...
www.chathamhouse.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Zeker mee eens!

(Staat ook in het artikel - de uitzondering waar wel veel is bereikt).

Mocht de VVD weer een coalitie ingaan, denk ik dat Brekelmans ook wel weer terug zal keren als MinDef.
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
* Wednesday, of course. Not tomorrow.

These Dutch campaigns are already short enough as it is :)
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
They certainly are! 😅 monday pre-caffeine typo.

(As a Dutch voter abroad, my vote has been in since last week - so that crisis at least averted).
October 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My initial thread:

Though there' s been some movement in the polls since Friday - notably a D66 surge - and it is therefore far from clear who will the biggest, I think the main prediction still holds:

A centrist coalition - D66, GL-PvdA, CDA and in all likelihood VVD.

bsky.app/profile/katj...
The Dutch elections have once again been disappointingly myopic - the transatlantic fractures, European security, China, Ukraine: they barely feature.

Despite this, I'd argue the momentum is for a more centrist coalition to win out, which will want to be far more active on the global stage again.
After the collapse of a short-lived right-wing government in the Netherlands, traditional parties may make a comeback — a shift that will be welcomed in Brussels and beyond.

Read @katjabego.bsky.social's latest analysis for Chatham House⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM