The new Dutch cabinet will comprise 29 ministers and junior ministers, nine of them appointed by the far-right PVV, party leaders have confirmed.

Geert Wilders’s party will take charge of the newly created ministry for asylum and migration as well as the ministries of health, infrastructure and economic affairs.

The right-wing liberal VVD has retained the justice ministry, which is being vacated by party leader Dilan Yesilgöz, and will appoint the ministers for finance and defence. It will also take charge of an expanded climate portfolio that includes “green growth”.

NSC, led by Pieter Omtzigt, will have the ministries of home affairs and foreign affairs, with career diplomat Casper Veldkamp expected to take the latter post, as well as education and social affairs.

The farmers’ party BBB will have both the minister and junior minister in the department of agriculture, which will include fisheries in its title for the first time in 21 years, as well as the housing ministry. Former junior minister Mona Keijzer has been earmarked for the latter role.

Although the parties agreed at an earlier stage to form a “programme cabinet”, with half the posts filled by non-political appointees, in practice only prime minister-elect Dick Schoof is unaffiliated with any party.

International development

The PVV will also appoint a minister without portfolio in the department for overseas aid and international development – a notable move given that Geert Wilders campaigned before the election to strip the department of its funding.

“We can pay for everything [in our manifesto] if we stop handing over billions to Brussels and Africa,” he wrote.

The health ministry is expected to go to Fleur Agema, who has sat in parliament for the PVV since 2006 and has long campaigned to reduce or abolish the excess charge of €385 on health insurance. The PVV will also have a junior minister in the department handling long-term and social care.

Reports in The Hague say that Wilders is planning to name MP Gidi Markuszower as minister for asylum and migration. He had to withdraw as a PVV candidate for parliament in 2010 after it emerged he had been flagged up by the intelligence service as a “risk to the integrity of the Netherlands”.

Interior minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin warned Wilders in a letter that the AIVD suspected Markuszower of passing information to a “foreign power” – thought to be Israel.

Finance to VVD

The VVD’s finance spokesman, Eelco Heinen, is expected to be given the job of finance minister, with NSC supplying junior ministers for tax and social security benefits. Former VVD MP Folkert Idsinga has been touted for the tax position.

Ruben Brekelmans is likely to be appointed by the VVD to the defence ministry, where he is likely to combine the Netherlands’ hawkish line on Ukraine with a strongly pro-Israeli stance. The junior minister will be provided by the BBB, who have a ready-made candidate in former soldier Gijs Tuinman.

David van Weel, currently Nato’s assistant secretary general for innovation, is reportedly being lined up to return to The Hague as justice minister, with the PVV filling the junior ministerial post. Sophie Hermans, the VVD’s parliamentary group leader during the last cabinet term, has been earmarked for the climate portfolio.

Richard van Zwol will hold interviews with the proposed candidates from Friday as he wraps up his term as chief negotiator. He will question them about their health and suitability for the role.

MPs will also have a chance to grill the ministers for the first time in a series of public hearings before they are formally sworn in at the start of July.

The new line-up based on party lines. Ministers are members of the cabinet, junior ministers or staatsecretarissen are not.

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VVD

NSC

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