Party leaders will hold meetings in pairs on Monday as they try to break the deadlock in the efforts to form a coalition of right-wing parties.

More than three months after the election, there is still no sign of the four parties – PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB – signing off a coalition deal in the near future.

Lead negotiator Kim Putters admitted that the talks were “complex” and focused on what form the new cabinet should take.

“There are a number of important preconditions for a fruitful political collaboration,” Putters, who is due to report back to parliament in two weeks, said. “Can a stable cabinet emerge on the basis of the election result and the shifts it contains?”

Most parties in parliament favour a conventional majority coalition, but two of the four taking part in the talks – the right-wing liberal VVD and the centrist-reformist NSC – are reluctant to join a cabinet headed by Geert Wilders’s far-right PVV.

VVD and NSC first

Putters is scheduled to meet VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz and Pieter Omtzigt of NSC on Monday morning, followed by Wilders and farmers’ party leader Caroline van der Plas in the evening.

Wilders stepped up the pressure on his potential partners on Friday, posting on social media site X that the two parties would be responsible if the talks broke down and Frans Timmermans, leader of the left-wing alliance GL-PvdA, formed a government instead.

Omtzigt has said his party will not join a cabinet led by Wilders, but he is prepared to support a minority coalition of the other three parties through a confidence and supply deal.

Yesilgöz said after the previous round of talks broke down that the VVD was prepared to join the coalition, but only if Omtzigt returns to the negotiating table.

Omtzigt’s preferred option of an “extra-parliamentary” cabinet, which includes ministers from outside the coalition parties and does not have an automatic majority in parliament, has met with little enthusiasm from the other three leaders.

Caroline van der Plas, leader of the farmers’ party BBB, last week suggested replacing NSC with other parties such as the Christian Democrats (CDA) or the Bible Belt party SGP.

But CDA leader Henri Bontenbal resolutely dismissed the idea. “The CDA will not take its place in a coalition that includes the PVV, not even as a supporting partner,” he told WNL.