21.10.2025

New blog post: The Netherlands is trying to draw a line under a year of chaos with fresh elections – will it work?

Authors: Léonie de Jonge, Esmee Bakker

Dutch voters are to elect a new parliament for the third time in just five years on October 29. Prime Minister Dick Schoof called a snap election following the collapse of his cabinet in June, just 11 months after it was sworn in.

The immediate trigger was the withdrawal of Geert Wilders’s far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) from the governing coalition. The PVV quit after coalition partners rejected its controversial ten-point plan on migration, which included using the army to secure borders and turning back all asylum seekers.

The article was published Open Access in The Conversation on October 21, 2025.