The Boer Citizen Movement (BBB) is open to cooperation in a coalition with the PVV, say party leader Caroline van der Plas and number two Mona Keijzer. “We are simply participating with 7 seats. We are simply entering the coalition negotiations. I have 100 percent confidence that we will also enter a coalition,” Van der Plas said in an initial response to the exit poll.
According to Van der Plas, whether the party will enter into a cabinet with the PVV, which is the largest in the exit poll with 35 seats, depends on the attitude of PVV leader Geert Wilders. “We cannot ignore the 2.5 million people who voted for the PVV. We deal with that seriously. He has taken a softer stance, has promised a number of things. It depends on whether he wants to hand in a number of things. He wants to ban the Koran, that is a slippery slope, then we can also ban the Bible.”
Keijzer is very curious about what the other parties will do after the PVV win. “It would be extremely arrogant to exclude such an obvious winner from negotiations. We do not do that, although there are things that the PVV wants that are really not possible. We have to discuss that.” Keijzer sees a coalition of PVV, NSC and BBB. “Then we already have 63 seats together.”