>In the alternative, is there anything that seriously prevents forming a majority coalition consisting of the VVD (+CDA/BBB?) through the PvdA? A bit of histor

>In the alternative, is there anything that seriously prevents forming a majority coalition consisting of the VVD (+CDA/BBB?) through the PvdA? A bit of historical context is that PvdA formed a coalition with VVD in 2012-2017, were then perceived to have not done so well (being overpowered by the VVD despite similar number of seats), and scored a historic loss going from 38 to only 9 seats in the following elections. So PvdA might be a bit hesitant to form a coalition with VVD again. >Also, as I understand it, the current Rutte IV cabinet is in caretaker mode, which in theory would prevent them from addressing worker and farmer compensation as well as the housing crisis, but in practice I'd bet the VVD would rather see market solutions to all of these things, so they aren't that motivated to form a new government. Is this correct? The dynamics and edge cases surrounding the cabinet formation and the demissionary cabinet are always a bit unclear to me, can't really answer this one except to say that the rule is that the demissionary cabinet can't decide on controversial issues. I don't know who gets to decide what issues are controversial, or how this rule would be enforced, I get the impression a lot of this is just parliamentary procedure formed through tradition, and maybe laid down in the meeting regulations but not in any laws..