Formation enters a crucial week: who wants to join whom in the new cabinet?

Buma backtracks on statement about ‘dropped’ option with VVD and GL/PvdA: ‘Clumsily expressed’

Once again there is commotion in the search for a new cabinet. After informer Hans Wijers first resigned, this time it is informer Buma who draws fire. He said on Friday evening that the cabinet option of D66, VVD, GL/Pvda and CDA had been ‘dropped’, but retracted this in a statement shortly afterwards. Those involved call the course of events inconvenient.