00:00Dutch King William Alexander swore in the new minority Dutch coalition government on Monday, led by Rob Jetting, the Netherlands'
00:08youngest ever prime minister.
00:10Jetting and his team of ministers were sworn in the Orange Hall of the Royal Palace Hoestenbosch in The Hague.
00:17The three-party administration, which took 117 days to form, is made up of Jetting Centrist Libro D66 Democrats' party,
00:26the centre-right Christian Democrats, and the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, VVD.
00:33However, with the minority coalition holding only 66 of the lower House of Parliament's 150 seats,
00:41Prime Minister Jetting will have to negotiate with opposition lawmakers on each piece of legislation his government proposes.
00:48The biggest opposition bloc, the newly merged Green Left and Labour Party,
00:53has already expressed strong objections to Jetting's plans to cut health care and welfare costs.
01:01In October, DC6 narrowly won from the far-right Party for Freedom, PVV, in a nail-biting-snap parliamentary election
01:09race.
01:10The poll was called after PVV withdrew from the previous coalition,
01:14the country's most right-wing government in recent history.
01:18Oh, I see.
01:20Okay.
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