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Volt Leader Warns Coalition Against VVD 'Blackmail' over Tax Deal Amid Crisis Talks

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Volt leader Laurens Dassen on Saturday called on Prime Minister Rob Jetten and CDA leader Henri Bontenbal not to give in to what he described as blackmail by the VVD. Coalition leaders met again at the De Zwaluwenberg estate to discuss the political crisis, but Dassen said the talks would not amount to a genuine conversation as long as they began from the VVD’s “blackmail demands.”

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Laurens Dassen has one seat in the House of Representatives. One. Yet the Volt leader believes he has the right to tell Jetten with whom he can and cannot govern. At the Volt party congress in Utrecht on Saturday, he called on Prime Minister Jetten and CDA leader Bontenbal not to allow themselves to be "blackmailed" by the VVD. At the...

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In the podcast Afhameren, political commentator Wouter de Winther and Kamran Ullah extensively review the stormy events of the past week. Listen to the entire podcast here.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Volt party leader Laurens Dassen issued an appeal to governing parties D66 and CDA at the party congress on Saturday: "Don't let yourselves be blackmailed by the VVD anymore." Dassen was referring to…

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Reformatorisch Dagblad broke the news in Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Saturday, November 14, 2026.
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