VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz has told a television talk show that she does not see her party working together with the GroenLinks/PvdA alliance after the October election.

Yesilgöz, who recently ruled out cooperating with the far-right PVV a second time and whose party’s support has plunged in the polls, told RTL Tonight she did not think the VVD would form a cabinet with the left-wing grouping. “I really don’t see that working,” she said.

The party leader was asked several times if she ruled out an alliance with GroenLinks/PvdA completely. “I am being to the point here and this much is clear,” she said. “I don’t want it because I think this country wants a centre-right strategy… and stability.”

She said she believed there was a real possibility for a centre-right cabinet based on the VVD, JA21, the Christian Democrats and D66.

GroenLinks/PvdA leader Frans Timmermans has not ruled out working with the VVD, but said in June that some differences between the parties “cannot be bridged.”

The GroenLinks/PvdA is currently hovering around second place in the polls, behind the PVV, while the VVD has fallen to fourth.

A poll by current affairs show EenVandaag at the end of August put the VVD, which won 24 seats in the 2023 general election, on just 15 seats in the 150-seat lower house, its lowest level in years.

Yesilgöz’s popularity has also dropped sharply, with more than half of VVD voters saying she should step down. Her standing was further damaged by her reaction on social media to singer Douwe Bob’s withdrawal from a football tournament for Jewish children.

All the polls indicate at least five parties would be needed to build a strong coalition after the October 29 vote.