{"id":1313844,"date":"2025-10-30T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dutch-elections-2025-results-and-what-it-means-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:47:42","slug":"dutch-elections-2025-results-and-what-it-means-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/dutch-elections-2025-results-and-what-it-means-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch elections 2025: results and what it means for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the 2025 snap Dutch parliamentary elections, the centrist D66 party has made a significant gain, while Geert Wilders&#8217; far-right forces have suffered significant losses. Preliminary results, published by the ANP agency after 50% of the votes have been counted, show D66 winning 27 seats in the 150-seat parliament, while Wilders&#8217; Freedom Party has won 25, losing 12 seats compared to the previous election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-30\/dutch-far-right-party-falls-in-election-as-centrists-set-to-win?srnd=homepage-europe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p> The result paves the way for D66 leader Rob Yetten to form a coalition government and potentially become prime minister. The centrists have enough seats to form both a center-left and center-right alliance. Most of the major parties have already announced that they will not cooperate with Wilders, effectively eliminating his chance to lead the government again.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMillions of citizens voted to turn the page on the politics of negativity and hate,\u201d Yetten said in an address to supporters.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Why is this important for Ukraine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Netherlands has traditionally taken a tough stance on EU enlargement policy. In the fall, Prime Minister Dick Schof rejected the idea of changing the EU&#8217;s decision-making rules to bypass the Hungarian veto and speed up accession talks with Ukraine. Experts say that the Netherlands should not be expected to give unwavering support to Ukraine&#8217;s European integration, even if the previous coalition had not collapsed.<\/p>\n<p> If Wilders comes to power, the situation may seem complicated due to his previous sympathies for the Kremlin. However, after the full-scale Russian invasion, his rhetoric became more cautious. Wilders recognized Ukraine&#8217;s right to self-defense and condemned Russian aggression, and his party, even participating in the coalition, did not interfere with supporting Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p> Analysts note that Wilders will have to look for allies among moderate parties, so Ukraine can still count on dialogue and pragmatic support.<\/p>\n<p> Forming a new government could take months due to the Netherlands&#8217; complex political system, where a majority in parliament requires at least 76 seats and usually requires three to four parties to form a coalition. Official confirmation of the results is expected on November 7.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, Dutch Foreign Minister David van Wiel, during his visit to Kyiv, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/niderlandy-nadadut-ukraini-koshty-dlia-pidtrymky-enerhetychnoho-sektoru\/\">announced the allocation of 25 million euros to support the Ukrainian energy sector.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported,<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finansuvannia-droniv-dlia-zsu-niderlandy-zapuskaiut-novyy-paket-pidtrymky\/\">the Dutch government will soon finance a new support package for Ukraine in the amount of 90 million euros to develop its own production of reconnaissance and strike drones.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2025 snap Dutch parliamentary elections, the centrist D66 party has made a significant gain, while Geert Wilders&#8217; far-right forces have suffered significant losses. Preliminary results, published by the ANP agency after 50% of the votes have been counted, show D66 winning 27 seats in the 150-seat parliament, while Wilders&#8217; Freedom Party has won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1251554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1313844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}