THE HAGUE, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Dutch minister Edith Schippers, tasked with leading coalition formation, on Monday called for a multi-party coalition to form the next government.
Schippers urged a coalition between rightist liberals VVD, Christian democrats CDA, leftist liberals D66 and the small Christian party ChristenUnie, with the latter two parties to address their differences on Tuesday.
Schippers, the outgoing Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, concluded on Monday that this is the only possible serious majority coalition option left, which has not been rejected by one or more parties.
Last Monday, talks to form a new Dutch government with VVD, CDA, D66 and green leftist GroenLinks collapsed after all parties failed to agree on migration.
Schippers acknowledged that the situation was complicated. "We have a fragmented political landscape and it is difficult to form a coalition, that is clear," she stated.
Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte's VVD won the elections on March 15 with 33 out of 150 seats in the lower house of the parliament. The rightist populist Party for Freedom PVV won 20 seats, CDA 19, D66 19, GroenLinks 14, Socialist Party 14 and the Labor Party (PvdA) nine seats.
All parties excluded cooperation with the anti-Islam and anti-Europe party PVV.
