A number of senior Christian Democrats have come out against the CDA agreeing to be part of a coalition government which is backed by Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV.

Wilders is ‘far too slippery’ to support a minority cabinet made up of the CDA and VVD, Arie Oostlander, head of the CDA’s academic institute, to the Financieele Dagblad.
‘The PVV is party which aims to hike up opposition rather than bridge tensions,’ said former social affairs minister Bert de Vries. ‘My party is the last one that should want to join in with that.’