The Liberal democratic party D66 is counting on Akzo Nobel chairman Hans Wijers and Alexander Rinnooy Kan, head of the government’s influential advisory body SER as potential ministers in a new government, party leader Alexander Pechtold says in Friday’s Financieele Dagblad.

‘D66 wants to take responsibility for the reforming agenda. That is why I am glad that people such as Alexander Rinnooy Kan and Hans Wijers want to be involved in its implementation,’ the paper quotes Pechtold as saying.
‘Let us hope the results on June 9 are such that I can call on their services.’

Commitment
Asked if he had already approached them, Pechtold said: ‘I will leave it at that… There has to be a packet of measures on the table which we can commit to and have enough MPs to matter.’
Pechtold hopes D66, which has three seats in the current government, will take at least 15 in the June 9 vote. The party is currently hovering at around 11.
Rinnooy Kan, who spoke at the last D66 conference and describes himself as a ‘snoring member’, declined to comment yesterday, the paper says.
A spokesman for Wijers, who was economic affairs minister until seven years ago, said he wishes the party well but has his hands full with Akzo Nobel at the moment.