Prime minister Dick Schoof has called on the four coalition parties to reach a single agreement with the opposition to address their objections to cuts in education, aid, healthcare spending.

All three policy areas risk encountering being voted out in the upper house of parliament, where the right-wing coalition does not hold a majority.

However, Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV and the largest party in the coalition, has already rejected the proposal. “We are certainly not going to do that,” Wilders said on social media.

“It might be necessary in some areas, but we, as the PVV, have already watered down our plans quite enough already,” he said.

Schoof told broadcaster NOS in his weekly interview that he had asked the four coalition parties – PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB – to consolidate all the issues that opposition parties have problems with into one comprehensive agreement, rather than tackling each issue individually.

“We cannot have the same discussion, week in, week out,” he said.

The cabinet has already been forced to revise its plans twice due to opposition in the senate. The decision to raise value-added tax on culture, books, and sport has been scrapped, and a threatened “no” to the highly controversial €2 billion cut in education funding has also prompted a rethink.

Opposition parties D66, CDA, ChristenUnie, SGP, and JA21 have been in discussions with the coalition parties over the education plans since Wednesday, when it first became clear that the cuts were facing significant opposition.

Schoof said it is up to the parties themselves to decide whether they are willing to reach an agreement on a “total package”.

Other party leaders have not yet officially responded to Schoof’s request, but VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz told her party’s conference on Saturday that “fortunately,” there are opposition parties willing to collaborate with the coalition.

“I want to find solutions together,” she said. “I hope we can join hands.”