Voting on all the Dutch ministerial budgets has been delayed for a week, as the coalition continues to try to reach a deal on education ministry spending.

The delay is at the request of far-right leader Geert Wilders. Reducing the planned €2 billion in education spending cuts will have to be funded by another ministry and that still needs to be agreed on as well.

“It has become a total mess,” said GroenLinks-PvdA MP Jesse Klaver.

In total MPs will vote on spending plans totalling €457 billion. While the right-wing coalition has a majority in the lower house of parliament, it does not control the senate, hence the need to make deals with the opposition.

D66 pulled out of the compromise talks on the education budget on Thursday saying the coalition’s plans still went too far.

If the total budget does not win support in the senate, ministers will have to revert to the 2024 spending plans on a temporary basis. But it is unclear what would happen after that.

Prime minister Dick Schoof last week urged the nine parties to come up with a “total package” to settle their difference over the budget in one go. “We cannot have the same discussion week in, week out,” he said in his weekly interview with NOS.

Opposition parties have already forced a climbdown on plans to raise VAT on culture, books, newspapers and sport.