Parties contesting the June 9 general election should name their ideal coalition before the vote, according to the leaders of the left wing green party GroenLinks and the Socialist Party.

The Dutch electoral system makes coalition governments inevitable but voters have little influence over what form the coalition takes or what policies it decides to implement.
‘In particular, the Christian Democrats and Labour should make their preferences clear,’ said GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema in the Volkskrant.
‘They don’t have to rule anyone out but they should say who they would prefer to link up with in a coalition,’ Halsema said.
Prime minister
SP leader Erik Roemer pointed out that the Labour party campaign is asking people to vote for a prime minister.
‘But what do you get if Job Cohen becomes prime minister and has to put Liberal or CDA policies into practice?’ he said. ‘People should know that before [the election].
Halsema said GroenLinks would like to work with Labour, the SP and the Liberal democrats D66. ‘The more progressive the better,’ she told the paper.
Last week, D66 leader Alexander Pechtold said he backed the idea of a pre election pact, but did not say which parties D66 would like to link up with.
The polls currently show a left-leaning coalition would require four parties.