The most recent poll of polls on support for Dutch political parties again shows the right-wing coalition would not win a majority if there was a general election tomorrow, and that backing for Pieter Omtzigt’s good governance party NSG has slumped even more.

The poll, an amalgam of the two national opinion polls Ipsos I&O and Verian/EenVandaag, also highlights the continued rise of the Christian Democrats, under the leadership of Henri Bontebal.

The poll gives the far-right PVV between 36 and 42 seats in the 150-seat parliament if there were to be a general election tomorrow. Geert Wilder’s party currently has 37 MPs but support for the PVV, which had soared in the early spring, is now back down to 22% to 26%. 

Support for the NSC, which won 20 at the election just over a year ago, has again gone down. The party would win between three and no seats at all in a general election, the poll of polls shows.

The NSC has been heavily criticised for continuing to prop up the right-wing coalition, and two of its junior ministers and two MPs have quit. Omtzigt set up the party pledging to bring “decency” back into politics but has been caught up in the bitter infighting with the other coalition parties.

Much of the NSC’s backing continues to ebb away to the CDA, which has five seats in the current parliament and would win 11 to 15 in a national vote. The Liberal Democratic party D66 is also on the rise and would win 11 to 14 seats. It currently has nine MPs.

But there is no improvement for the GroenLinks-PvdA alliance, which has 25 seats in parliament and remains on 23 to 27 in the poll of polls. The alliance is the biggest opposition party.

The VVD, with 24 seats at present, would win between 21 and 25 seats, while the pro-countryside BBB, which now has seven seats, would win five to seven. Both parties have lost some support.

According to Iposos I&O, just 19% of voters say they are happy with the current coalition, led by “neutral” prime minister Dick Schoof.