Despite the vote at Saturday’s Christian Democrat party conference in support of forming an alliance with the anti-Islam PVV, the new right-wing cabinet is not yet a certainty, most papers point out on Monday.

Some 68% of the 4,000 plus CDA members voted in favour of the pact to form a minority government with the right-wing VVD which will be supported by the PVV.
But two of the party’s 21 MPs remain opposed and their support is vital for the new alliance to be able to count on a slim majority of the 150-seat parliament.
Substantial minority
‘One third of delegates support my and Ad Koppejan’s position and that requires careful consideration,’ dissident MP Kathleen Ferrier said. Koppejan described opposition to the pact at the congress as a ‘substantial minority’.
‘They are completely within their rights to continue their opposition,’ caretaker health minister Ab Klink said. Klink stood down as an MP three weeks ago because of his opposition to the deal with the PVV.
Caretaker CDA justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin told tv current affairs show Buitenhof on Sunday that he was shocked by the amount of pressure being put on Ferrier and Koppejan to toe the line.
Democracy

MPs have the constitutional right to take their own decisions, Hirsch Ballin pointed out. And he criticised caretaker transport minister Camiel Eurlings for calling on the duo at Saturday’s conference to give up their opposition in the name of democracy.
Hirsch Ballin called on the queen’s negotiator Ivo Opstelten to report back that he had been unable to put together a stable majority government.
The queen has to give formal approval to the three-party set-up before VVD leader Mark Rutte can begin appointing ministers.
VVD opposition
Support for the alliance with the PVV is not unanimous within the VVD either. At the weekend former minister Gijs de Vries became the second to announce he was resigning from the VVD and had joined the Liberal democrats D66 instead.